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...wager most Harvard undergrads have committed willful (and in most cases knowing) copyright infringement, and I can guess reasonably well by looking at the shared music libraries on iTunes that many people have done so quite recently (the collector’s edition of The Massacre by 50 Cent has only been out since the beginning of March, and I’m sure at least some of the half-dozen or so copies online weren’t actually purchased...
...young man he amassed a police record worthy of a rap star: arrests, citations, imprisonments, most of them connected to brawls and knife fights. In May 1606, when he was around 34, he killed a man with a sword, in a fight over a wager placed on a tennis match. Badly wounded, facing a murder charge and a sentence of death, he fled Rome, the scene of his early triumphs as a painter. After a four-year struggle to return, he died, possibly of typhus, on a Tuscan beach. Although the papal pardon he sought for years was finally granted...
...would wager that most Harvard students—many of whom actively avoid classes that start before 11:00 a.m. or meet regularly on Fridays—don’t remember, think or write as effectively in the morning as they do later on in the day. It’s not merely an inconvenience for late-nighters—as the squinty-eyed superiority complex of the early risers would undoubtedly claim. Morning people get a big advantage over the rest of us when it comes to final exams, which often determine student grades. There?...
...situation we find ourselves in is a bizarre one: something like 90 million Americans—including, I would wager, better than 95 percent of Harvard students—are more or less daily breaking the law. Most of them don’t even know what the law says, and just about all of them don’t care...
...entering the Senate with more buzz than clout, Clinton did her homework, kept her head down and stayed in tireless contact with her New York constituents. Gradually, her political capital rose. Obama says he plans to ask for her advice. Depending on how the conversation goes, maybe they could wager on the chances of them ever running together for the White House. --With reporting by David E. Thigpen/Chicago and Jeannie McCabe/Honolulu