Experts count everything: winners, losers, trumps and — very important — high-card points.
Having watched Andre Agassi lose to Mark Philippoussis at Wimbledon because of 46 aces (and that doesn't count service winners or feeble returns), I believe the game has become lopsided and boring.
When bidding with a distributional hand, count winners and worry about the tricks that the opponents might take.
BEST/WORST: We try not to count winners as "best" or "worst" moments because they're all subjected to a complicated voting system.
NYU counts 36 Nobel Prize winners, three Abel Prize winners, 10 National Medal of Science recipients, 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, over 30 Academy Award winners, four Putnam Competition winners, Russ Prize, Gordon Prize, and Draper Prize winners, Turing Award winners, and Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winners among its faculty and alumni.
After 35,870 alumni votes were counted, five winners were announced from the alumni group on Monday.
The £10,000 award, which counts African winners of the Nobel prize for literature Wole Soyinka and JM Coetzee amongst its patrons, is for a short story by an African writer published in English.
America was great, according to Donald and his disciples, when the binary prevailed, when the folks in charge knew instinctively who they were "versing," and therefore knew self-evidently who ought to be counted as winners, and who (with exacting specificity) were obviously losers.
Last month, Cowell had said the show would count as a winner if it surpassed the seven months that the Spice Girls musical Viva Forever! – one of the biggest flops of recent years - had spent in the West End.
Still, in summer 2002, the Senate blocked a pair of amendments that would have required companies to deduct the estimated cost of stock options from their reported profits, but Silicon Valley could hardly count itself a winner.
