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...wager real money on these odds? No - the odds are for entertainment purposes only. The Nevada Gaming Control Board only allows us to take wagers on sporting events played in an arena. We still try to treat these odds like any others: we put them up on the big light board here in the sports book and print them out on sheets for customers to take home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Johnny Avello: Setting the Oscar Odds | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...though it will be an expensive, arduous process to determine so many products’ carbon footprints, this is the clear next step in fighting pollution and climate change. Remember the fights between Bud Light and Miller Lite over calorie counts? Imagine if their advertising slogan were applied to the environment: “More taste, less carbon...

Author: By Malcolm-wiley T. Floyd, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: More Taste, Less Carbon | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...audience. As the concert was the day before Valentine’s Day, she serenaded the audience with sweet songs of young love. The audience responded in kind, laughing at her stories and intentionally cheesy lyrics. While Traoré’s endearing performance was often light-hearted, some of her work has a serious tone. She paused before singing “Tounka” to express her reasons for writing it. “I would prefer to see Africa more respected...like a rich country,” she said. “Tounka?...

Author: By Rebecca J. Levitan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Traore a Natural Performer | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...tutors and administrators, though they stressed the variable nature of application numbers and said they did not have concrete data from past application pools.The spike in this year’s candidates—particularly graduate students—may reflect the position’s heightened appeal in light of limited job opportunities in the current economic climate.“In difficult economic times, when people are more concerned with maintaining financial stability, becoming a tutor looks more attractive,” said Mather House Master Sandra A. Naddaff ’75.In addition to stable housing...

Author: By Bita M. Assad and Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Tutor Applications See Spike | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...Afghanistan. There has been too much of a focus on the fight, he says, and not enough on development. "I wanted to show the conflict between ordinary Afghans and the foreign soldiers who don't know how to listen." Even if the message is heavy, his touch is light, a tactic to make the criticism easier to swallow. In one scene the soldiers fantasize about having multiple wives, while the refugee-clan patriarch, who has three, drowns his sorrows in opium smoke. Each wife has her own abandoned tank - call it a postapocalyptic, polygamous, Afghan trailer park - but the patriarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's Great Film Hope | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

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