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...were foreseeable, in many circumstances random chance simply has more influence than reason can account for. Take, for example, Russell Pleasant, who beat out more than 3 million other brackets to win ESPN’s $10,000 prize for the highest score in 2006. When asked how he knew to pick heavy underdog George Mason to reach the Final Four, he explained that he “slightly confused them with George Washington...
...Based on focus group reactions, Utley knew she had a movie Hispanic audiences would respond to. Some people were even crying at the TV commercials, she says. "They said, 'I've never seen myself on screen before...
...Before I left Beirut last week I sat down with a member of Hizballah's politburo. He didn't look anything like the old Hizballah I knew from the '80s. For a start he asked to meet in the posh Vendome Hotel, in the rooftop restaurant that has a commanding view over the Corniche and the Mediterranean. Clean shaven and carrying a new leather briefcase, he offered me a Cuban cigar as soon as he sat down. He had just come from a class teaching economics...
...feel it until you look in the mirror and all of a sudden people are starting to make comments that "boy, you don't look the same." I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented, as a kid growing up in Brooklyn. But it certainly felt strange...
...Hearing the objection, McCain dropped his amendment, but the incident left a bad taste with several of the committee's Democrats. They knew that smaller television companies were pushing hard to loosen the FCC rules. Two of those companies were Glencairn and Paxson Communications, which had hired Hector Alcalde to represent them before McCain, with apparently good results. One month after the hearing, McCain met with the head of Glencairn, Eddie Edwards. Nine days later, at least three members of the Edwards family gave McCain maximum donations of $1,000 each...