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...Even if Clinton wins the state's primary on April 22, her chances of taking the big prize are slim-as Rendell, for all his bluster, must surely understand better than most. Either way, Ed Rendell will go on. "I like Barack," he says. "If he's the nominee, we'll bust a hump...
...odds that North Carolina, UCLA, Kansas, and Memphis—the four top-ranked teams in the country—would all make it to the championship in San Antonio were fairly slim. Basketball Prospectus, which uses past performance to generate probabilities of future outcomes, estimated the chance of what they termed the “Doomsday Scenario” at 3.5% (smaller, incidentally, than the probability that a number one seed would be upset in the first round). However, that still made it the single most likely of the 65,536 possible combinations of Final Four teams...
...Literature concentrator, who now works at Fidelity Investments. While she says that her Harvard education admittedly allows her to think critically and qualitatively at Fidelity—granting her the permission to pass on the number crunching to her colleagues—its value in her life is slim...
Most Americans would agree that five years of war in Iraq have done great damage to their country in terms of loss of lives, money, and international reputation—even if a slim majority remains confused about what to do next...
...with a fifth-place finish in epee. Entering the season without some key fencers, the Crimson nevertheless relied on veteran leaders and some youthful infusion to tie for the second-best finish in school history. Mathematically, the chances of recapturing the title, which Harvard won in 2006, were quite slim. With only 10 qualifiers after regional competition, it would have been nearly impossible to finish above the few teams with 12 fencers, the maximum number allotted per team. That, however, did not prevent some strong individual performances. Sherrill, coming off his first All-American performance with a 10th-place finish...