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Nothing demonstrates how fickle lady luck is quite like allowing three of my picks to make it to the men’s Final Four, only to deny every one of my picks a berth to the women’s Sweet 16. More to the point, though, because I couldn’t care any less who won the men’s championship game on… Read more.
[F]or one who had no allegiance to any of the [68] teams and couldn’t care any less which team wins the national championship, I did a pretty good job of picking winners in my office pool: of the four teams I picked, three (namely, Kentucky, Louisville, and Kansas) made it through to the Sweet 16… Alas,… Read more.
Her heroic, even if terminally futile, struggle to restore democracy has garnered her remarkable spurts of international attention and acclaim. Most notable in this respect was when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 – after the National League for Democracy party she founded won a landslide general election (in 1990), which the… Read more.
