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...camera, it probably means that something has gone very, very wrong. Like a Super Bowl referee, she's perfectly anonymous if she does her job right, a name in the news only if she blows the call. "We have a quite lovely studio, right near the anchor's desk," Frankovic says of her crew's setup. "There's even a camera in the room. But my goal for election night: not to be on camera...
...George W. Bush, only to retract those projections. Since that debacle, the networks have faced enormous pressure to make the right pick, while still beating the competition to the airwaves. "My instructions are to make sure you get it right," says Dan Merkle, director of ABC's "Decision Desk" and the man with final say over that network's projections. "But we're obviously in the news business, and we understand the need to be timely...
...particular, Johnson plans to use his math background to spot trends and further improve the league's already sophisticated data analysis and video-feedback systems. "I've got this chart sitting in front of my desk comparing preseason travels, offensive three-second calls and defensive three-second calls for the past two years," he says. "I can sit here and determine if there's a statistically significant difference." If a certain type of violation is being called with more or less frequency, Johnson plans to figure out what's driving the change. His two biggest priorities are lowering the number...
...tossed it in the shredder for sustainable recycling.So I set my sights lower: ever the ambitious young upstart, I accrued 30 generic applications at even more generic establishments only to have the majority swallowed up and effectively lost forever in some pile on an assistant supervisor’s desk. Occasionally I would hear back, but the response was invariably a flat rejection or, once, a confused call from a hardware store clerk who inexplicably assumed I came with Y chromosomes and could lift 200 lbs. I was so desperate at this point I tried to play along, but eventually...
...Harvard’s standard issue bookshelf, desk, and bed frame are nowhere to be found. Instead, the heavy wooden desk has been replaced with a slim, steely silver work table. The standard bed frame has been put into storage. Batt has constructed a replacement frame that sits low to the ground...