Is this a winning political hand?

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Manuel has big-game experience, having had a hand in the Seminoles winning four bowl games.

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Thus, you might fold if you were holding a pair of threes and a pair of tens and you believed your hand had only a 30% chance of winning.

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Yet there's a question how much longer he can play that winning hand.

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Per this adage, a trader might rightfully conclude that staying long is the winning hand barring an exogenous shock to the system.

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Since he graduated from Oxford in 1977, he has been a painter, an arts editor for British Vogue, an architect, a writer, a curator for, among other institutions, the Metropolitan Museum, a creative right hand to the photographer Mario Testino and an award-winning scenographer, costumer and, now, director.

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Soon after winning the presidency for a second term, President Kumaratunga appeared to extend the hand of friendship to her main challenger, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former prime minister who leads the opposition United National Party.

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