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...election campaign has begun?though the poll isn't due until late 2007. Howard is seeking a fifth term and remains the punters' favorite: employment and consumer spending are strong, the Prime Minister is a wily operator, his opponent an inexperienced leader. According to Centrebet, based on a $1 wager, a win for Howard's Liberal-National coalition will return $1.72; one for Labor $2. But the sports-betting agency says Labor could become the favorite within weeks. A combination of voters' curiosity and Rudd's fidelity to the media spotlight has produced a big bounce for the Opposition leader...
...this same vein, I am willing to wager that the reason many women choose not to run for the UC is not because they are blatantly discouraged from doing so by their male counterparts, but because they would just rather not involve themselves in the "sausage-fest of the year." This begs the question: Why don’t more women run for the UC? Overt sexism is on the decline in the Harvard community. Rarely will you encounter someone on campus who is outspoken and secure in his or her discrimination against women. However, certain aspects of Harvard?...
...never know the multitude of options the Baker commission considered in preparing its recommendations for resolving the Iraq crisis, but here's one two-part strategy I'd wager no one thought of: Declare war, then...
...like hacking off so many limbs. (Presumably that?s why Peter Jackson has added 51 mins. of footage for the DVD of King Kong, which in theaters clocked in at an elephantine 3hr.7min.) In most cases, what was removed would not have been missed. But here, I?ll wager, there?s a better fat film screaming to get out of this good thin...
...times. The Crimson qualified both senior captain Clay Johnson and junior Kyle Kovacs for the event, and Johnson’s 77 points helped him finish third in his final singlehanded championship, while Kovacs was right behind in fourth place with 79 points. Stanford’s Emery Wager won the event with a 61-point total, and Trevor Moore of Hobart took second place with 71 points. Johnson, who took second at the same event the past two years and third as a freshman, will finish his illustrious career without an individual national championship...