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The Jerusalem Post pointed to a "novelty-seeking and risk-taking gene discovered in Israel" (see "International Papers" for ). Michael Kelly asks Washington Post readers why "we lard up the sorrow with this great and gross festival of national media blah-blah about Camelot and royalty and The Kennedy Curse."
The Los Angeles Times attributed the crash to a piloting error by Kennedy, but a tidal wave of eulogies (including this one from the Washington Post ) blamed a curse on the Kennedy clan.
One such law is dubbed the "winner's curse" and holds that the winner of an auction almost always overpays.
If you bid rationally (lower), you won't win any auctions; if you bid what it takes to win auctions (higher), you'll lose money because of the winner's curse.
And Dowd who speculates about what kind of a president Tom Hanks would make, and who calls Al Gore "the Saving Private Ryan of presidential candidates"--meaning that the aura of inevitability that surrounds him now may turn out to be a curse in 2000.