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Belichick defines the 21st century NFL coach: tech savvy, detail oriented and passionate about personnel--a mini-CEO in his realm. New England spends inordinate amounts of time evaluating playersand not just assessing athletic talent. It looks for personalities that fit into New England's system, which is not star driven. A head coach today, Tagliabue explains, is "someone who is effectively an executive investing half a billion dollars in the next five years." That's the amount of money each coach will have to spend on players over that period, and the salary cap prevents any team from buying...
...would argue that regular exercise and weight loss are not good for your health, but results from a large study of women with heart problems suggest that sometimes it's better to be fit than thin. Active women, no matter how thin or fat, were much less likely to have a heart attack and other cardiac problems than women who didn't exercise, according to the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation. But weight does matter. Researchers in the ongoing Women's Health Study found that overweight and obese women--regardless of how regularly they exercised--were as much as nine...
Football seems to have been made for making TV money. There are plenty of breaks, allowing for commercials to be aired without interfering with the game. After every change of possession, players shuffle on and off the field: commercial time! After every score, again: commercial time! The ads fit into the flow instead of disrupting it, unlike, say, basketball, in which "TV" time-outs crop up out of nowhere, or hockey and soccer, in which every minute-long stoppage is artificial...
...Governance Initiative will be housed in the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs, whose larger mission of promoting policy-based knowledge that relates to international regions and issues made it a good fit...
...incisive journalist with a sardonic sense of humor and a love for the party life, former newsie Leon will fit in perfectly with his new FM family. Leon is so hip he forewent a Crimson party to rock out with his band. The mag will be closer to finding its sharp, quirky essence with Leon on board...