Word: gloating
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...competitive Olympic spirit kicks in. Bud Kling, a 53-year-old tennis coach from Pacific Palisades, Calif., has been to six Games and has more than 20,000 pins, which cover his office walls and sparkle in custom-made display cabinets. A fellow trader comes up to gloat, having snapped up a sought-after NBC guest pin. "So what did you have to give up?" asks Kling. "If I told you, you'd die," his friend replies with a self-satisfied grin. "They took a UPS [corporate pin]." There's a pause as Kling shakes his head. "Jesus," he says...
...shift, and how it all shakes out in the labyrinthine land of puts, calls, options and futures is really anybody's guess. Gore and Clinton have put themselves at the mercy of a mob whose ways they can't possibly fathom, and if they're smart they won't gloat a bit, no matter where oil prices go. Just ask Alan - the boys on the Street are panicky and unpredictable parsers...
...That's right. For reasons that are, once again, entirely unclear to me, I managed to pick not eight, not nine, but 10 of last week's games correctly. I have been encouraged to gloat, but am going to refrain until this string of glorious good luck has established itself into something resembling a pattern. On a more serious note, how 'bout them Brownies? Hope they enjoyed that win, because this week the Steelers are going to burst their bubble like a schoolyard bully...
Though the election season is too early for Bush to gloat about the polls, Gore trails the Texas governor nationally by about 10 points. Gore tacitly acknowledged last night he faces a fight in the months ahead...
Thursday will be a turning point in the Harvard experience for the Class of 2003. They will see how the dice have fallen--whether they can gloat about a new home in Adams, say, or shuffle along, disgruntled, wondering how long until they understand the shuttle schedule...