A highly satisfactory result, one would have thought, were it not for the £7 million to £9 million estimated price bracket printed in the catalog.
Much of the nation follows along with their bracket print-out and markers in hand, but no real rooting interest in mind, other than bragging rights with friends or cashing in the office pool kitty.
You can fill out the bracket by printing out this page, or by clicking here, which will take you to a fillable PDF that you can complete in your browser or on your computer.
But we all know the games aren't played on paper, especially the paper your busted bracket is printed on.
"All those brackets being printed and copied," Kara K. Choquette, the manager of corporate public relations for Xerox, says of the familiar forms on which participants scribble their picks.
Of course, office managers and teachers around the country must also get suspicious of the way seemingly everyone under their supervision becomes intensely interested in college basketball as soon as the brackets are printed.
b This sentence, bracketed in the print edition in front of me, was not written by Falconer, and is properly still under copyright.
a This sentence, bracketed in the print edition in front of me, cannot of course have been written by Falconer, and is properly still under copyright.
It sold for a very generous $5.9 million, even if the price fell within the printed estimate bracket.
The UNFCCC climate negotiations are bogged down in fine print, square brackets, political posturing and general mistrust.
So, it's time to do some homework, print your brackets and then make your picks.
