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...into her own goal. She responded with a vicious throat-slashing gesture directed at her teammates. She later spit at me, apparently mistaking me for an autograph-seeking fan. And that night at a local restaurant, she confessed to intentionally throwing the game, having placed a rather substantial wager on the opposing team...
...WETTEN DASS? (BET THAT?), Germany. The audience makes spectacular bets, and celebrity guests wager whether the contestants can win the bets. After losing a wager, Hugh Grant had leg hairs pulled out with sticky tape...
...attained a fine finish. Over the next 50 minutes, Mendelson, a gangly man with a Dead Poets passion, alights on the distinctions between the Puritan, Enlightenment and Romantic mind-sets; Pascal's wager over the existence of God; his (Mendelson's) sister; the unreliable narrator; and, of course, Muhammad...
...book (No. 10 on the Amazon.com list), the comic book and, yes, the CD of songs found in the tape deck of Josh's car. Now fess up, that's stretching synergy. But everything has worked so far for the good-guy directors, who sounded most excited about a wager they'd just collected on. They'd bet Artisan that if Blair Witch did $10 million, they'd get a new Foosball table. It arrived in Orlando this week...
Wetherell can't believe that anyone is questioning these never before reached values. He says that not only is the Internet not a high-risk investment, but it is also "absolutely the safest bet I know." He has been making this wager since 1994, when CMGI (then known as College Marketing Group) was still a company that hawked textbooks to college professors. He took the firm public and used the proceeds to invest in then obscure companies such as Lycos and Booklink--the latter of which he would later sell to AOL for $70 million. The soft-spoken, laid-back...