Word: predictioneer
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The innate caution of Dukakis' campaign style sometimes leaves aides in the peculiar role of providing both the specificity and the passion that the candidate so assiduously avoids. Chris Edley, for example, talks animatedly about Dukakis' moving immediately after the election to forge a "vigorous consensus on a multi-year...
And more often than not, her prediction is right.
The saga of T.K. the handicapper began when she was the trainer for women's soccer. "It started when [former soccer player] Kelly Landry would ask me how we were going to do," T.K. says. "Then I'd look at the stats. After the second year, I started making prediction...
But T.K. winced a bit more. Not only had Princeton gotten to within one, but the late Marcoux goal had ruined her prediction of a 4-2 Harvard win.
TWENTY years ago the Kerner Commission predicted that our country would soon be stratified into two "separate and unequal" factions if the conditions of the day persisted. This disturbing prediction has become a nightmarish reality, and the presidency of Ronald Reagan is to blame.