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...admirable sentiment, but many in the industry wonder how much Betfair has left on the table in the short term. The firm likes to style itself as the eBay of online gambling because it enables people to place bets against one another. That has proved to be a recipe for growth: revenues almost doubled last year to $187 million, and more than 3 million bets per day now pass through the firm. But its profit margins are far lower than those of rival PartyGaming, for example, and its board recently decided against a public stock offering anytime soon...
...wonder Van Dyke isn't getting out. "People say, Van Dyke, why in the hell don't you retire?" he says. "Well, hell, I don't hunt and fish. I don't play golf. My wife won't let me chase girls, so what else is there?" And like any other great oilman, he's still got big dreams. "I'm taking all the properties we have in West Africa, going to make a great big sale, probably to the Chinese, the Indians, going to keep about a 15% interest." A deal like that could make him a billionaire...
Dining in Spain isn't always delightful, of course, and visitors who don't venture beyond the hotel and museum districts may wonder what all the fuss is about. Despite our best efforts to find local gems serving traditional Catalan fare, we couldn't shake dishes of gluey paella, watery gazpacho, oversalted cod and lamb scraps advertised as cutlet. In Madrid, where Moroccan food is in vogue, we ordered a salad at a trendy place called Mosaiq and received taco filling. A dollop of wasabi next to a greasy piece of fish was the chef's idea of fusion...
...tables. It's here that customers can risk curiosities like Tahitian Hinano beer, Baadog from Mongolia, Black Sheep from the Faroe Islands, and fruit and chocolate beers. For $150 you can try a bottle of Framboise Boon 1986, an award-winning, vintage, limited-edition, microbrewed raspberry beer?no wonder it's so pricey. There's a legion of glasses in a plethora of sizes and shapes?the bartenders know which container best complements which drink. If you get your fill of beer, Delirium offers genever, a type of gin?but the bar only has 500 varieties of that...
With those attrition rates staring Sullivan in the face—and with the long history of futilely fighting against the reputations of Penn and Princeton still to be overcome—it’s no wonder that Harvard’s coach approaches even the most impressive recruiting class with guarded optimism...