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...reason for the paradoxical results was straightforward enough: the majority of the wins the players tallied were for relatively small stakes. But the longer they played - and the more confident they got - the likelier they were to get blown out on one or a few very big hands. Win a dozen $50 pots and you're still going to wind up far behind if you lose a single $1,000 one. "People overweigh their frequent small gains vis-à-vis occasional large losses," Siler says...
...reason why I agreed to do it was really that I’ve been disappointed that the mythologizing about the end of the Summers presidency keeps being presented as he was run out of town because of…the women in science controversy,” he explained...
That Christmas, Nicholson offered Lewis a place to stay when Lewis' wife left him homeless. Nicholson's reason for letting a possible murderer into his home was simple: “When I die, I’m pretty sure I’m going to hell," Nicholson said. "But I didn’t want it to be because I let a guy who might be innocent freeze to death by the Charles River right before Christmas,” he added with a chuckle...
...second reason is equally significant and a harbinger of the fights to come in the Republican Party: a deep fear of the Palin forces. Intimidated by the rabidness of her supporters, believing that they can't be swayed by facts and worried about getting crosswise with the most highly energized part of the Republican base, McCainworld has allowed her version of reality to go largely unchallenged - and her rise to continue unchecked. There is perhaps a related factor: a recent Washington Post poll found that Republicans regard Palin as the front runner for their party's 2012 nomination and that...
...your thesis change as the recession evolved? The recession validated some of the arguments. One reason that the economy ran off the rails was because of these high-stakes rewards for short-term payoffs. When that went on for too long, it ended up having collateral consequences on the whole economy. (See 25 people for blame for the financial crisis...