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...this tale had a racing pedigree, it would be by The Producers out of Guys and Dolls. Goes like this: three wiseguys--old college frat rats, now computer wonks--hatch a scheme to rig electronic bets on the horses. A scheme so good, they can't lose. They don't lose. They win big. Real big. Lotto...
...sums to get the licenses, carriers found they were unable to meet overly optimistic revenue projections. They couldn't pay their license fees to the government nor their network-construction-related debts. In a bid to rescue the nascent industry from crib death, regulators shifted to a revenue-sharing scheme in 1999 that lifted the burden of license payments...
Rose has certainly earned his summa cum laude in quarterbacking. Directing one of the most complex offenses in college football for three seasons now, he has broken nearly every meaningful passing record in Harvard history and redefined the position in the Crimson offensive scheme. He led Harvard to a perfect Ivy record in 2001 and almost repeated the feat this year. Simply put, Neil Rose turned Harvard football into winning football...
...role in the creation of the CD was to indicate her preferences of lyrics and musical styles. Linguistics professor Bert Vaux, who has lectured on Koko in his class, Social Analysis 34: Knowledge of Language, responded to early claims that Koko was a songwriter, saying, “This scheme is consistent with what [The Language Instinct author Steven] Pinker accuses the animal trainers of doing with Koko and the other ‘talking’ animals – taking utterances of limited content and coherence and augmenting them with more fluid pronouncements from the imaginations...
...Calliope, window designer and store owner Anne Lerner confesses the true scheme behind her work: an obsession with puns. “It’s a sickness with us! We’ve been doing it for 30 years, and we have people who wait to see what the pun of the month will be. People walking by will give a thumbs up if they like it, and we disappoint people when there’s no pun,” she says...