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...introduce restrictions. BOTTOM LINES "I had tennis on my mind and, now and then, girls." Boris Becker, tennis champion, explaining his failure to pay taxes after a German court fined him €500,000 "As unpopular as this is to say now, a lot of analysts are pretty good." Chuck Clough, CEO of Clough Capital Partners, showing how analysts' newfound caution extends even to praise of themselves "They know that a certain number of morons will succeed under any system by pure chance." Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic, on why statisticians don't write management books
...choice to kickoff deep after cutting Harvard’s lead to 14-10 in the second quarter. Byrnes fielded the kick at his 11-yard line, picked up a couple blocks and promptly executed the sixth longest run-back in Harvard history—the first since Chuck Nwokocha ’01 took a 94-yarder to the house against Yale in 2000. “I didn’t expect them to kick it deep,” Byrnes said...
Many airline pilots these days are more like office workers than Chuck Yeager. Today's highly computerized flight decks mean that pilots spend a lot of their time typing data into their flight-management systems rather than sharpening their stick-and-rudder skills. "Some pilots can get into situations that are so unnatural and frightening that they freeze," says Terry McVenes, deputy chairman of the pilots' union's safety committee. "For example, when the plane goes nose down, it takes a lot of physical strength--and absorbing about 3 Gs--to pull the plane out. If a pilot tries...
...says he can't project his power very far and has trouble moving his tanks and artillery swiftly. Does that mean Iraq will crumble on impact? Not necessarily. "You have to anticipate the worst-case scenario--that it will be a vicious, ferocious fight," says Nebraska's Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam veteran. The outcome probably turns on how vigorously the 60,000-strong Republican Guard fights. Most experts say it would be foolhardy to write off Saddam's most loyal, best-trained troops, especially if the fighting comes to the streets of Baghdad...
Behavior that once might have been called paranoid was praised by authorities. Says Skamania County sheriff Chuck Bryan: "We live in a much different country now." --By Amanda Ripley. Reported by Polly Forster and Nathan Thornburgh/Portland