Presidential Futures

By DON TROOP

A college presidency has become the subject of a parlor game.

Stock shares on Inkling Markets were holding steady at $64.66 last week on the likelihood that Gene R. Nichol would still be president of the College of William and Mary on January 1, 2008. That is to say, traders in this play-money "prediction market" are giving Mr. Nichol a 65-percent...