Posted on 12/31/2007 9:28:17 AM PST by mojito
THIS is the 34th annual office pool in this space, a New Year’s tradition that has become the most excruciating multiple-choice prediction test in world media. Nostradamus himself couldn’t score over 50 percent. Last year, despite a good bet on surging optimism in Iraq, I was mistaken 12 times out of 15. But the audacity of hope springs eternal; here, together with fearless readers, I go. For each item, choose one, all or none.
1. The business headline of the year will be:
(a) Big Bounce to 15,000 Dow After Soft Landing
(b) Recession Has Brokers Selling Apples for Five Euros on Wall Street
(c) Subprime Mess Was Greatly Exaggerated
(d) China Buys Boeing
2. The Academy Award for Best Picture will go to:
(a) “There Will Be Blood”
(b) “Sweeney Todd”
(c) “American Gangster”
(d) “The Kite Runner”
(e) “Charlie Wilson’s War”
(But don’t expect winners to cross picket lines to pick up their Oscars.)
3. The Roberts Supreme Court will decide that:
(a) gun rights belong to the individual, but the Second Amendment’s key limitation is that gun possession should be “well-regulated”
(b) states can require voter ID to prevent fraud even if it reduces access
(c) lethal injection is not cruel or unusual punishment if it isn’t painful
(d) the “ancient right” of habeas corpus applies to Guantánamo detainees no matter what law Congress passes
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Questions 1 and 3 need a “none of the above” response
Not surprising, where there may be thousands of possible future events — but, you have to chose between five.
I think Safire is the new Frank Rich.
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