Word: bayes
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Goal Post also falls victim to what close scrutiny discovers is rather imprecise analysis. In assessing the chances of Tampa Bay, the magazine "predicts." "In what appears will most assuredly be another hotly contested battle for NFC Central Division title honors in 1982, the Bucs will once more be among the highest bidders." The king of football annuals, Street and Smith's Pro Football, similarly waffles. The magazine writes: "The Washington Redskins could win it all"--but also says the same thing about the Detroit Lions, St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Giants and a bunch of other teams...
Journalism's unpredictable demands can occasionally fray the nerves of the staunches! individuals, but TIME'S staffers have learned to take the unexpected in stride. Boston Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand was lunching in "your above-average greasy spoon" in Boston's Back Bay when he learned by phone that he had been assigned to report a cover story on James Levine, the internationally acclaimed music director of New York City's Metropolitan Opera. Levine was 4,000 miles away in Austria conducting at the Salzburg festival. Could Hillenbrand, who had reported major TIME stories on such...
Henry Matson, 62, recalls the night he strolled into a bar called the Great Alaskan Bush Co. with a $12,579.64 paycheck in his pocket. At least he remembers the beginning of the night. Matson, who had been fishing for salmon in Alaska's Bristol Bay, was looking for a good time in the rowdy Anchorage saloon. And he got exactly what he wanted, according to Owner Edna Cox, who agreed to cash Matson's check. He spent the night, she said, "buying all the patrons in the club drinks, paying numerous girls for table dances, handing...
...demanding job, and Bliss works at it almost nonstop five days a week. Only on weekends does he forget about the Met. Then he retires to his country home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and renews his acquaintance with Sally, his third wife, who is director of the Jeffrey II ballet troupe, and their two sons, 14 and twelve. He putters in the garden, raises such wild game as pheasant and quail in his duck pond and plays tennis. He also listens to music, the kind that soothes and softens a Sunday. Chamber music, of course...
...chief executive also used last week's inaugural to declare his concern for the poor, and, specifically, to pledge emergency assistance for the homeless. It was a good first step--and in his second incarnation as Bay State governor, we hope Dukakis will not lose sight of these noble ideals...