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Cleary has 15 players back off his NCAA championship squad. Brown Coach Bob Gaudet had a bushel of freshmen--10 on his starting lineup, to be exact...
...Gamble, the Reds are still waiting to learn whether Rose bet on Thoroughbreds or himself. All around, the Lotto jingles play accompaniment to the mystery. At the next World Series, whether Rose is there or not, one thing is sure. The mayors of the competing towns will wager a bushel of rutabagas against a barrel of pistachios on the great American pastime...
Homophobia exists on campus to be sure--as the scribbled message "Harvard faggots die" indicates. However, to use this to brand the Harvard/Radcliffe heterosexual community as overwhelmingly intolerant is making the tempting mistake of calling the whole bushel rotten because of a few rotten apples. The fact is that Harvard is overwhelmingly tolerant...
...Would he comment on the problems if Broeg pledged to exclude his name? "No," White said. "I won't comment unless you do use my name. I'm the problem. The RBI man hasn't been knocking in any runs." After that he started knocking them in by the bushel, and the Cards made up 6 1/2 games on the Phils in the final two weeks and went on to win the World Series...
...which a broker slices an extra profit margin by buying a contract from a confederate at a bit more than the going price in the pit, or selling one for a bit less. For example, if a customer asks the broker to sell a soybean contract of 5,000 bushels and the market price is $7.50 per bushel, the crooked broker may sell the contract to a colleague for $7.40. That gives the colleague a discount of 10 cents per bushel, or $500, some of which he kicks back to his partner. The customer probably cannot challenge the price because...