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A Strong Wager; A regional theater veteran lands at Temple's drama department.
; ...are few names as respected as Douglas C. Wager. Best known as the former artistic director...Washington, D.C.'s prestigious Arena Stage, Wager has directed on Broadway and at nearly...long one. Peerless among D.C. directors, Wager--who worked on nearly 200 productions during...
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Fred Wager, Wildwood commissioner, ex-mayor, dies at 78
; ...Funeral services for City Commissioner Fred Wager will be held Wednesday at the Wildwoods...Center, Mayor Ernie Troiano Jr. said Monday. Wager, 78, died Saturday at Burdette Tomlin Memorial...Commission meeting, Troiano first announced Wager had been hospitalized for an illness. Wager...
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Wager remembered for his dedication to Wildwood
; ...Funeral services for City Commissioner Fred Wager will be held Wednesday at the Wildwoods...Center, Mayor Ernie Troiano Jr. said Monday. Wager, 78, died Saturday at Burdette Tomlin Memorial...Commission meeting that Troiano first announced Wager had been hospitalized because he was battling...
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Wager is Huskies' ace in the hole
; ...That 10 turned out to be 5-foot-7 junior guard Kara Wager. Wager jumped into her current starting position rather quickly...there when she does something good on defense." While Wager averages about four points a game, her season hasn't exactly...
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Douglas Wager moves from theatrical Arena to TV land.(Arts & Entertainment)
; ...Emblazoned on theatrical director Douglas Wager's baseball cap are the words Law & Order. After 25 years at Arena Stage, Mr. Wager is going Hollywood. He's taking with him...collection. I'm shipping it all out, Mr. Wager says, a non-Merlot-induced grin breaking...
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Wager's Cue To Exit, Hesitantly
; The hardest moment this week, says Doug Wager, was when he gathered his staff together...forward." The next day in the halls of Arena, Wager was pleasantly surprised by expressions...shifting it more to a personal level," says Wager. "And I think a lot of people understood...
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Wager big hit on the charts
; ...the case of Glenbard South's Carrianne Wager, the game is girls' basketball, which few...song (her father has a career in radio)," Wager said. "I think it's great, everyone notices...allowed me to relax and play my game," Wager said. A lack of cohesiveness plagued Glenbard...
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However you look at it, Pascal's Wager is a safe bet QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
; ...I had to my recent piece about Pascal's Wager. Put forward as a rational basis for belief...eponymous 17th-century French philosopher, the wager considers the four ``payoffs'' produced...widely seen as a bit of a cheat, and the wager has prompted debate ever since. Bill Lewis...
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Doug Wager's Last Acts; At Arena, Bowing Out On a High-Concept Note
; ...office or basking in raves, Douglas C. Wager is darn proud of his final season as artistic...within Arena's rabbit warren of offices, Wager summed up: "We did not play it safe, let...Service" was artistically disappointing, Wager admits. But Anna Deavere Smith's ambitious...
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Clinton Wager, 76; played for Chicago Bears in '40s.(NEWS)(Obituary)
; ...inches tall and 250 pounds, Clinton (Stoop) Wager was a gentle giant who had a penchant for...Army and the Disabled Veterans of America, Wager gave his time and money to any charity...as his stature, said his daughter Betse. Wager led a colorful and fulfilling life, said...
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Halleck, Henry Wager
Halleck, Henry Wager (1815–1872) U.S. army officer and military intellectual; Commanding...Department of the Missouri with headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. After the battle of Shiloh (1862), he took personal command of the Union forces around...
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duel
...point of honor. The duel may have originated in the wager of battle, an early mode of trial in which an accused person...prohibited the judicial duel and all forms of ordeal. Wager of battle was abolished in France in the mid-16th cent., and...
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ordeal
...cause of the righteous in the battle. The trial by battle or by combat (sometimes called a judicial duel or wager of battle) was a recognized procedure in...the contending parties issued a wager of battle, or challenge. Both parties under...
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Charnel Houses
...are fairly common. A Cornish (England) folktale tells of a wager in which a man offers to go into the parish charnel house...yours," picks up another, and dashes out with it, winning the wager. His discomfited opponent then drops from the rafters. By...soldiers, both Serbian and Austro-Hungarian, who died in ...
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