Word: frats
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...this tale had a racing pedigree, it would be by The Producers out of Guys and Dolls. Goes like this: three wiseguys--old college frat rats, now computer wonks--hatch a scheme to rig electronic bets on the horses. A scheme so good, they can't lose. They don't lose. They win big. Real big. Lotto...
...final race, he left behind thousands of Ultra Pick 6 losers and only one winner: Davis, who held all six winning tickets. What were the odds of that happening legit? Next to zero, say track officials, who withheld payment and started investigating. U.S. Attorney James Comey says the three frat brothers exploited a gap in horse racing's data network that allowed them to change their wagers after races had already been run. Harn allegedly used his job as a senior programmer at Autotote, which processes wagering for many U.S. tracks, to alter Ultra Pick 6 bets that Davis phoned...
...parallel shift in the culture suggests that Clinton-era values are no longer America's. Though a baby boomer, Bush rejects the instant-gratification ethic embraced by Clinton, the nation's first baby boomer President. Bush went from party-hearty frat boy to hard liquor--drinking Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (until he shaped up in his 40s) without stopping to dabble in the counterculture or go anywhere in a VW bus. He often laments not being one of the Greatest Generation he so admires (although he was no more up front about not going to Vietnam than...
...student in Mather House who wishes to remain anonymous carried his stint as a fraternity member slightly further, making it as far as mid-way through the pledge process. “The frat just seemed so removed from my life here at Harvard,” the student says. “There were no other Harvard pledges, all the meetings were across the river, and I often was leaving rehearsal only to jump on the T to go to a pledge meeting. The madness...
However the men of DLP stand ready to accept Harvard men who are intersted in the alumni connections and multi-campus dimensions of frat life. “It would be a great way to break out of the Harvard scene,”Dobre says...