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In Britain, where former Defense Secretary Michael Portillo gambled on his political future in the Conservative Party last week by admitting to youthful homosexual experiences, the Mail on Sunday published an opinion poll showing that "seven out of ten voters would accept a prime minister who had been homosexual in the past, and six out of ten would accept one who was openly gay."
He gambled that he could raise enough money and drum up enough support in the New Hampshire polls to guarantee his credibility until the primary.
The NYT runs the indictments story inside, adding that a nationwide survey of Division I basketball and football players showed that 4 percent said they had gambled on a game they had played in.
They drank, gambled and swore like, well, sailors.
Lewis, a Wall Street convert himself, interviews media hermit and Long-Term mastermind John Meriwether and his legion of smart "young professors" who gambled on market hyper-rationality to power their finance strategy (as Lewis explains, "things people did with money when they were frightened was an opportunity for more reasonable people to exploit").