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Log5. Log5 is a method of estimating the probability that team A will win a game against team B, based on the odds ratio between the estimated winning probability of Team A and Team B against a larger set of teams. Let and be the average winning probabilities of team A and B and let be the probability of team A winning over team B, then we have ...
Inaugural address, January 20, 1993. Clinton during the signing of the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, with Yitzhak Rabin (left) and King Hussein of Jordan (right) After his presidential transition, Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd president of the United States on January 20, 1993. Clinton was physically exhausted at the time, and had an inexperienced staff. His high levels of public support ...
Bill Serong, 88, Australian footballer (Collingwood, North Melbourne). Perrette Souplex, 94, French actress (Paris Still Sings, Suspicion, La smala). Frank Yandrisevits, 69, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1985–1990, 1993–1994). Vladimir Yereshchenko, 61, Russian Olympic boxer . 19
Rider (legislation) In legislative procedure, a rider is an additional provision added to a bill or other measure under the consideration by a legislature, which may or may not have much, if any, connection with the subject matter of the bill. [1] Some scholars identify riders as a specific form of logrolling, [2] or as implicit logrolling. [3]
Launched. May 1999; 25 years ago. ( 1999-05) RateMyProfessors.com ( RMP) is a review site founded in May 1999 by John Swapceinski, a software engineer from Menlo Park, California, which allows anyone to assign ratings to professors and campuses of American, Canadian, and United Kingdom institutions. [1] The site was originally launched as ...
A pair of hotel executives, Mercer and Swayle, repeatedly make attempts to confront Jake and Tina about their growing unpaid bill. Only one object stands between the couple and total insolvency. That is a tiny sculpture by Henry Moore that was given to Tina by her husband as a gift. But just as she and Jake hatch a scheme to pretend the object ...
Bill Haydon is a fictional character created by John le Carré who features in le Carré's 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He is a senior officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service who serves as a Soviet mole. The novel follows aging spymaster George Smiley 's endeavours to uncover the mole. The character is partly modelled after ...
Wikipedia [note 3] is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki -based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.