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...planned on doing it before the game--him getting a series in," Harvard Coach Tim Murphy said. "It's basically a reward, it's basically we have confidence in him, and if he was playing any other position, he'd be playing...
...rather in stocks and bonds of companies that need a strong economy to push them higher. Wall Street's newfound pessimism could give you a chance to buy these normally "risky" instruments at prices at which the risk is more than amply compensated and nothing lies ahead but reward...
...night -- with the RNC?s stamp of approval ?- means an end to the tacit agreement between the parties that the Lewinsky affair would not play a large role in the fall campaign. One commercial features two women discussing whether it?s "OK to lie"; another asks if voters should "reward not telling the truth"; a third uses the video, but not the audio, of the President denying having had sexual relations with "that woman." Although none use "Bill Clinton" in the same sentence as "lying," the implication is about as subtle as a sledgehammer...
...data entry folks who should feel most threatened by this turn of events. The monkeys were able to identify the numbers on a touch-sensitive computer screen; press one banana followed by two trees and three triangles, for example, and the almighty unseen hand delivers a special reward. It was, said Columbia psychology professor Herbert Terrace, "like using your password to get money from a cash machine." So if an infinite number of monkeys are given an infinite number of ATMs, presumably one of them will eventually withdraw a hundred bucks and remember to get a receipt...
...stink bomb has been dropped on the Capitol, already reeling from the Starr report. In a full-page, $85,000 ad in the Washington Post last week, Larry Flynt announced a reward of up to $1 million for anyone who could prove having had "an adulterous sexual encounter with a current member of the United States Congress or a high-ranking government official." What's high-ranking? In an interview with TIME, Flynt said he'd go broke if every scalp garnered the top prize. Flynt is reserving that for the goods on bold-type names. "One member...