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...then they wait for the glue to dry - almost. Nobody moves from his station, afraid to lose sight of his all-important bat, which could fall prey to a devious glue-tamperer. (And besides, who'd want to leave such a happy-smelling place?) The ITTF mandates that the glue cannot contain volatile chemicals, and only allows adhesives approved by the federation. They also collect every athlete's bat 30 minutes prior to a match and run it through a rigorous inspection for weight, sponge thickness and volatile compounds, returning the paddles in Ziploc bags to the referee just before...
After Bill agreed to bat around these ideas, deputy managing editor Adi Ignatius acted as the intellectual impresario of the roundtable. He convened an impressive group: chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Shelly Lazarus; founder and CEO of Whole Foods John Mackey; president of the International Center for Research on Women Geeta Rao Gupta; and University of Michigan professor C.K. Prahalad, whose book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid was a key influence on Bill's thinking. Each of them has a distinctive and provocative point of view. You can watch and listen to the roundtable...
...football, for baseball, for whatever game we felt like inventing on a given day. It’s still there. And on my first day back from Cambridge, with my classmates engaged in life-changing experiences and world-altering work across the globe, so was I, along with a bat, a ball, a glove, and my lifelong best friends...
...N.F.L.'s Buffalo Bills, thrice defeated by stronger squads in the Super Bowl. The Braves have an eerier heritage: they are losing to teams deemed weaker. And they have the stats to prove it. The Braves outscored the Phils 33 to 23; their hitters had a much higher batting average (.274 to .227), their pitchers a much lower earned-run average (3.15 to 4.75). The Phils were out- everythinged, but they didn't care, because the Braves were out-won. Or worn out. They had endured playoff-style pressure in their season-long chase of the Giants -- a vexing road...
...weeks before opening, Bat-ticipation was ratcheted so high that Dark Knight screenings were selling out online as fast as theaters could add them. The AMC South Barrington in Chicago planned to show the movie on six screens and ended up ordering more prints in order to play it on 18. A planned Friday midnight showing at Hollywood's Cinerama Dome sold out so quickly, its adjoining theater, the ArcLight, added 13 midnight screenings. Those midnight shows broke another record, earning $18.5 million, to beat out Star Wars, Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith's 2005 record...