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...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...
Take this new movie, for instance. When you first heard that Saturday Night Live's mega-popular Ladies Man sketch-generally regarded as one of the few remaining SNL sketches that are actually funny-was being turned into a movie, I'll wager the inflated cost of a movie ticket that this exact thought, or some variation thereof, flashed across your brain...
...makes no sense to eliminate legalized sports gambling in Nevada because the amount wagered is dwarfed by illegal gaming in the other 49 states. Indeed, goes the argument, without a legal way to bet on college games, gamblers would wager illegally and contribute further to the growth in illegal gambling. To promote this view, the industry bought ads in newspapers warning of the consequences if Congress eliminates legal sports betting in Nevada. Under a headline declaring s. 2340: A "FIX" ONLY A BOOKIE COULD LOVE in the Washington Post on June 22, Harrah's Entertainment Inc. admonished, "If Congress bans...