Word: wager
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Gambling was instilled in me as an eight-year-old, when my grandmother would take weeks' worth of my allowance during post-Thanksgiving poker games and Mom and I would wager $5 over which Hanukkah candle would go out last. More often than not, I lost that bet, but I figure I'll get even when Mom goes to hell for that particular piece of religious training...
...Which of the following did N.Y.C. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani NOT bet against Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley in a Super Bowl wager...
...silly, you're thinking. No one cares. And you'd pretty much be right. But let's imagine we were talking about, say, Dorothy Rumsfeld and Colleen Powell and their respective domestic employees? I'd wager everyone would care very much - and that those women would never win confirmation...
That said, I'd be willing to wager that Friday's lethargic performance was a fluke. Whether St. Lawrence simply had a better night, or whether Harvard suffered from a particularly acute case of bus legs, the Crimson simply had a bad game...
...more than celebrity methane. This season the networks have recruited scads of established celebs to draw viewers (see box), always a risk. (Nathan Lane's crash-and-burn in 1998's Encore! Encore! hovers like Marley's ghost over star vehicles.) On Bette, CBS has placed a huge, um, wager, running it opposite Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (which provides a cute running gag in one early episode). "It's probably the most anticipated show of the new season," says CBS television president Leslie Moonves, "and that's a huge burden...