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...teams. If Derek Jeter wanted to know the speed and location of every ball that Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett threw to him on a 2-2 count with a man on first base, Bloomberg says it could provide this information in about 10 seconds. Bloomberg is also offering around-the-clock customer support to the teams. While a fantasy player can expect a response from Bloomberg within 24 hours of asking for help, he won't get a 3 a.m. callback while he's torturing himself over whom to start at second base for the next day's game...
It’s a sunny day. A couple of kids are hanging out, playing around with some old shopping carts they found lying around. And that’s when it happens. Students come streaming out of the nearby school in a state of shock. One of their teachers has opened fire during an assembly, killing three students and one teacher. The scene cuts to the hard-boiled policewoman whose job it is to sort out the mess. This simple exposition could be the beginning of any of the popular crime dramas shown almost constantly on television...
Basing a book around a police officer and the various testimonies she solicits may be a worn-out trope, but it must have provided an interesting exercise for Lelic. Lelic’s characters come from all walks of life, and he especially relishes in his attempts to mimic their speech. These narratives can be alternatively funny, melodramatic, and occasionally convincing. Other times however, they can be patently ludicrous...
Reeves said that he hopes that the city will open a discussion on living conditions in Central Square, which has not seen a large-scale renovation since 1990 when the city spent around $3.5 million to revitalize the neighborhood...
Central Square’s most pressing problems range from a high poverty level to insufficient police presence to “move along various nefarious activities on and around the benches,” Reeves said...