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...target: free-agent pitcher Pedro Martinez, fresh off a Series victory with Boston. "It's a family day, and you show up in a place where you're not supposed to be, just to talk to me," Martinez recalls. "That was more than enough." The four-year, $53 million-- contract offer helped...
...Martinez signing had two benefits for Minaya. Not only would Pedro draw Hispanic (and other) fans to Shea, but his leadership would attract other top-tier Latino players to the Mets. Carlos Beltran, coming off a torrid postseason for the Houston Astros, signed a seven-year, $119 million contract one month after the Martinez deal. "Beltran wouldn't have considered us without Pedro," Minaya says. Before this season, Minaya traded for Beltran's close friend, slugger Carlos Delgado, who has hit 38 home runs. Delgado eased Beltran's burden in the lineup, contributing to his MVP-caliber resurgence...
Boeing doesn't just build jets. Last week it landed a $67 million contract to build a largely virtual fence with drones, cameras and sensors along the U.S.-Mexico border...
...Harvard’s pedagogical woes is not to force the world’s best researchers to teach courses they have no interest in teaching. Harvard should do away with the three-year and eight-year rules to allow the best lecturers to continue to teach on a contract basis.Proponents of the current system offer two main arguments. First, they hope that Ph.D. candidates and preceptors will go on to bigger and better things, and wish not to promote full-time instruction as a viable career choice. This strain of opposition is not only misguided—Harvard instructors...
...option on the Miami housing-price index and the value of homes in Miami (including his) slides, the money he makes on the derivative offsets his loss. A put option is the right, but not the obligation, to sell a security at a set price. A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell something at a future date. Both are derivatives because they derive their value from an underlying asset, in this case, real estate. If that sounds complicated, well, it is. The notional value of the futures contract is about $50,000 and is bought on margin...