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...smart on a day I feel dumb. So I called oddsmaker Art Manteris to see if we could come up with a bet that he would post on all 19 sports books he runs for Station Casinos. Manteris, author of Super Bookie, was responsible for making proposition bets a huge business when, in 1985, he offered 20-to-1 odds at Caesars Palace that an incredibly fat defensive lineman named William (the Refrigerator) Perry would score a Super Bowl touchdown. Unfortunately for Manteris, there was a rare outpouring of public affection for the obese, and when the Fridge scored...
Kerviel wanted more action than his low-level position allowed. So he began trading secretly?racking up huge profits at first. He says some bosses knew and made him out to be a criminal only when the trades went bad. So was he solo? "If he was working alone, he would have been caught," says Suresh Sundaresan, a finance professor at New York City's Columbia Business School...
...winning, and to lose by losing. Giants fans will rightfully argue that their team is more vulnerable, more exciting, because it actually has lost. Until this season, every Eli Manning deep throw provoked was an exercise in abdominal fortitude. Before it stormed through the playoffs, New York allowed huge point totals to the NFC’s top two teams in weeks one and two, and critics said that once again, the Giants couldn’t quite hang with the big boys. Following this up-and-down season, New Yorkers might say, was more exciting than enjoying their opponents?...
...excitement that created - a "tidal wave," in the words of Bill Clinton - nearly drowned the hopes of the former President's wife. But Hillary Clinton answered with her own organizational prowess, whipping up huge numbers of working-class, female and older Democrats. Only the students have kept Obama in contention: in New Hampshire, his edge among young voters was 3 to 1; in Nevada, it was 2 to 1; and in Michigan, nearly 50,000 under-30s voted "Uncommitted" because Clinton's name was the only one on the ballot. In a year of unprecedented levels of participation by Democrats...
...churchified African Americans. They had been shocked and hurt, and then enraged, by his foolish, two-week effort to diss Barack Obama. The next crowd, at Hillary Clinton's closing rally in Columbia, was equally pale and must have been deeply depressing to the ex-President. I remembered a huge interracial crowd in the Mississippi Delta, late in Clinton's presidency. I was standing next to Jesse Jackson, who was quite moved by the "glorious" sight of whites and blacks salt-and-peppered through the audience. I asked Jackson why he found it so moving; he had seen crowds like...