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...This format allowed very good teams to come together,” Fish said. “It allows [us] to see how our players are [compared] to each other and to other teams...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Holds Up In Home Tourney | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

Today's best sitcoms have adapted by relearning their art from the genres that superseded them. The Office borrows its mockumentary format and the device of interviewing characters in "confessionals" from reality TV. This is a perfect fit for a show that's about the mundane routine of work life, but the filming technique - in which the handheld camera reacts almost like another character - also lends itself to sitcom wackiness. The opening of its post-Super Bowl episode (a fire drill goes wrong, leading to chaos that includes a cat being thrown through a ceiling panel) was probably the funniest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Laugh Track Required: The Comeback of the Sitcom | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

MIT’s applicants will still bear the same stress that comes with a college application. Unfortunately, they may lose the ability to display their voice and writing skills with this new format. It was already a challenge for applicants to express themselves in a 500-word essay, but it is more difficult to do this in 200 words. Students will be forced to focus almost entirely on content, whereas in the traditional personal statement, they can display their true writing talent...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Losing the Essay | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...format produces surprises, but no city has felt the sting more than Pyeongchang, South Korea. Pyeongchang's bids for both the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics were thought to be the favorites of the committee, and in each case, the small city of about 46,000 people led after the first round of voting. But both times, when the third-place city was eliminated, its backers supported competing bids. As a result, Pyeongchang lost two nail biters, surrendering the 2010 Games to Vancouver by three votes and losing out on the 2014 Games to Sochi, Russia, by four votes. Being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Is the Olympic Host City Chosen? | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...more like a joint press conference." - Criticizing the panel format of the presidential debates in the 1992 election (New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Kirk Jr., Kennedy's Replacement | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

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