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...grown up a mile from Fenway, Epstein was a data freak who did a sabermetric analysis on everyone in spikes. By the time he was finished dealing, Epstein had replaced 16 of Boston's 25 players. Before the 2004 season, he tried to pull off a stunning coup by bringing superstar shortstop Alex Rodriguez to Beantown. The deal fell apart, and Rodriguez eventually landed in New York. But Epstein had other gems in sight. He splashed out $24 million for a much-needed closer, Keith Foulke, after landing the incomparable Schilling, a certified Yankee killer. The additions gave...
...course, it's not certain the industry can repeat its camera-phone coup. For mobile music-download services to take off, business models have to be developed and pricing for songs settled. Many consumers may prefer to transfer tunes already stored in their home computers to their phones, instead of paying high wireless fees to download music. Devices sporting hard drives may be too complex and expensive for the masses. Most important, record companies must embrace the idea?and so far labels seem concerned that wireless downloading will spread music piracy. For example, earlier this year South Korean record labels...
This page has consistently asked for a blockbuster musical act to be brought to Harvard, and the council delivered. Landing Bob Dylan was a coup for the Campus Life Committee (CLC). However, neither we nor Harvard students in general showed much enthusiasm for an expensive, yet still second-rate comedy act—namely Jim Bruer’s recent performance at Sanders Theatre. The poorly-attended show leeched money from council coffers, endangering HoCo funding. And what the council will now have to cut to make up for the raise in HoCo funding remains to be seen...
...Sharon won U.S. endorsement for a position that requires no movement from Israel towards ending its occupation of the 1967 territories before the Palestinians have eradicated the militants in their own ranks and elected a new leadership acceptable to Washington. But earlier this year, he achieved the biggest political coup of his career in securing President Bush's backing for Israel's right to keep its West Bank settlement blocs. President Bush sought to sugar-coat his historic reversal of almost four decades of U.S. foreign policy proclaiming the settlements an obstacle to peace by pointing out that deals such...
...analyst. Sihanouk, once Cambodia's dominant political force, set up the royalist Funcinpec party now run by his son Prince Norodom Ranariddh, but the prince is not the political operator his father was. Prime Minister Hun Sen is now firmly in control: he overthrew the prince in a 1997 coup and has since won two controversial elections. In August, Hun Sen persuaded Ranariddh into joining a coalition government after a yearlong deadlock...