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...graduate student at Harvard, John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics Donald Rubin set about formalizing this deceptively simple idea. Although it was not an entirely novel concept, it was Rubin who provided the statistical mathematical notation for it. In 1986, Rubin published his “Rubin Method” and, in the process, made statistical history...
...Bush Administration--particularly in an election year--isn't likely to dispatch more than a few thousand to Haiti for much longer than the three months mandated by the U.N. last week. "We stepped up, and we are the lead elements of the interim force," said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who sees an international peacekeeping force of up to 5,000 in Haiti before long. But "obviously, we'd like to see some other country take that lead...
...seem to forget its context. It was delivered by an immigrant worker whose imperfect English was intended to make it sound somewhat stilted, excusing any loss of impact derived therein. I present to you another line from Adaptation that single-handedly trumps any off-day Kaufman offerings, when Donald Kaufman describes the screenplay he’s working on: “So the killer flees on horseback with the girl, the cop’s after them on a motorcycle and it’s like a battle between motors and horses, like technology vs. horse...
...Harvard Business School here, right? Now if these professors are so smart at businesses, then why aren’t they out there making millions instead of teaching here? To me if I’m gonna learn business, why not have someone like Donald Trump over there teaching it? Don’t get me wrong, they’re brilliant people—they’re brilliant theoretically. There’s book learning, and there’s reality...
Before long, he may be right. Now that Donald Trump's The Apprentice is the season's highest-rated new show, reality TV is discovering what sitcoms have known for decades: people love to watch other people work. In the real world, workers may be worried about outsourcing, downsizing and on-the-job surveillance, but on TV, cutthroat, anxious work under surveillance is becoming big entertainment--perhaps in the same way that horror movies and roller coasters make anxiety fun. For Fox reality chief Mike Darnell (who's making Casino, about working in, you guessed it, a casino, with Apprentice...