"William N. Rowe" Queen's Counsel/QC is a former politician, lawyer, broadcaster, and writer in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He is married to Penelope Ayre Rowe of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador/St. John’s, who is a member of the Order of Canada. They have a son, Dorian, a daughter, Toby, and three grandchildren.

Rowe was born in Grand Bank and is the son of the late Liberal Senator Frederick William Rowe and the late Edith Laura Butt.

Rowe attended Memorial University of Newfoundland where he earned a Bachelor of Arts. He studied for a Bachelor of Law at the University of New Brunswick on a Sir James Hamet Dunn Scholarship, and went on to become a Rhodes Scholar, graduating with an Honours M.A in Law from the University of Oxford.

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I think it's unfortunate because there was a great deal of debate about not marketing the lottery to poor people. It doesn't take much to connect the dots. If you're pawning your possessions for money or don't have enough money to have a bank account, it's probably not a great idea to spend your money on lottery tickets.

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Believe me, I don't think (Allen leaving) is a remote possibility. We're too pleased with the way things are going.

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I don't have any doubts at all how he's going to do here. I realize at the end of the year he could walk. We've just got to slide through this first year, and I think we will.

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With both the men's and the women's teams, we put our eggs in the NCAA Tournament basket first.

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We just agreed we wanted everybody to be happy.

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It was a win-win situation for them and for us.

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Once you've opened that Pandora's box of selling lottery tickets, it's difficult to say you're going to sell them here and not there. But to have them on sale in places you go because you're strapped for cash, that ought to be thought about. There's something to that, that ... doesn't seem to be the best public policy.

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That would benefit us, and our league, in particular.

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