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...73rd presentation of awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?Oscar Night?to see which of the nominees announced last week will be picking up a statuette and thanking God and their accountant. Of those viewers, millions will have placed a small, friendly, tense wager on the outcome...
...seem antithetical, or at least benignly neutral, to its mission. How many "future leaders" will change their behavior in the years ahead as a result of what they learned in S&E? From wide discussions with classmates, the answer is a resounding "none." On the other hand, I would wager that many students will accept as unequivocal truth a trickle-down theory of charity...
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...
...turns out the reason I take any bet, no matter how long the odds, is not that I am very, very dumb but that each wager is a challenge to my masculinity, and that, for those who are not regular readers of this column, is something about which I'm a little insecure. It's the same reason men day-trade and look at pornography. I know that last part doesn't make sense, but I'm always searching for an excuse for the porn thing...
...Which of the following did N.Y.C. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani NOT bet against Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley in a Super Bowl wager...