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Will the first letter of Sunday's New York Times front page headline be a vowel or consonant?
Using the settlement link provided in the question, 'Given a Shovel' is the top headline
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html#Front%20Page
Background:
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html
Settlement details:
As visible at: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html.
The "Front page headline" is defined as the text accompanying and displayed above the largest photograph on the front page of Sunday's New Your Times print edition.
In the unlikely event the first character in the headline as described above is a character other than an English Alphabetic character (A-Z), the first alphabetic character in the headline will settle this market.
Settled
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Suspend date: Fri 18th Jul 6:59pm PDT Settlement date: Sun 20th Jul 9:41am PDTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Fri 18th Jul 6:59pm PDT have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
Initial likelihoods: Vowel: 50%, Consonant: 50%
Action history:
swilson 
newswrangler:
"The "Front page headline" is defined as the text accompanying and displayed above the largest photograph on the front page of Sunday's New Your Times print edition. "
We have had this problem before... the largest photograph is at the very top of the page, so the text that "accompanies" it is BELOW the photograph.
IF that is the criteria to be used, than the winning prediction is "consonant" ="G" (Given a Shovel).
If that is not the criteria, then this question likely ought be voided, as one of the two other top page (flush top) stories begin with a vowel, the other with a consonant.
<http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/07/20/pageone/scan/index.html>
rbrog77: This should be settled, I think as vowel
http://www.nytimes.com
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: Using the settlement link provided in the question, 'Given a Shovel' is the top headline
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html#Front%20Page
Suspend date: Fri 18th Jul 6:59pm PDT Settlement date: Sun 20th Jul 9:41am PDTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Fri 18th Jul 6:59pm PDT have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
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The "Front page headline" is defined as the text accompanying and displayed above the largest photograph on the front page of Sunday's New Your Times print edition.
In the unlikely event the first character in the headline as described above is a character other than an English Alphabetic character (A-Z), the first alphabetic character in the headline will settle this market.
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