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...that at least a quarter of the thoroughbreds brought into the city turn out to be financial black holes. He believes owners should pat themselves on the back if they're able to recoup a horse's livery fees through prize money. Snagging a champion horse requires lots of luck. "All the things in a [winning] horse - courage, constitution, the will to win - are things you can't see," says Peter Horwitz, president of the Thoroughbred Racehorse Owners' Association of New South Wales in Australia...
Before last March, I had always looked forward to returning home from Harvard. Good food, family, and plenty of sleep are plentiful at home while examinations, homework, and exhausting meetings are in short supply. As luck would have it, however, I returned home over spring break to a tragedy...
...Real Life with Steve Carell, an actor whose appealing, interior, sad-sack demeanor is made for chick comedy. He plays Dan Burns, an advice columnist and widowed father of three girls, who instantly falls for the lovely Marie (Juliet Binoche) when they meet at a bookstore. Darn the luck, she turns out to be the new girlfriend of Dan's younger brother Mitch (Dane Cook, who's already had his own failed fall comedy, Good Luck Chuck). A mainstream comedy with an indie vibe, Dan hopes to be the film that gets couples back in the theater for something they...
...days where the ball wasn’t meant to go in the goal,” co-captain Matt Hoff said. “I just don’t think it was meant for us to come back today.” It was not just bad luck that kept the Crimson out of the Big Green net. Dartmouth boasts the stingiest defense in the Ivy League, having given up only seven goals all season for an average of 0.5 goals per game. And although this is the first time Harvard has been shut out all year...
...children were riveted. In 10 days traveling in India they had ridden an elephant and met a gemstone merchant, and now they knew two tiger specialists. And the next afternoon when they observed a female tiger watering at a stream on a safari ride, they savored their good luck...