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...will be more stringent than those in the U.S. Last month Toyota announced plans to manufacture the Prius, its hybrid gasoline-electric car, in China, where it hopes the clean vehicle will find a significant market. Beijing's government, meanwhile, is working to develop electric cars before 2008, and GM is working with the Shanghai Automotive Group on a hybrid bus design...
...irony, though, is that while Ivy League alums like Red Sox GM Theo Epstein (who didn’t play sports at Yale, but did write about them for the Yale Daily News) and Los Angeles GM Paul DePodesta ’95 (who only played JV baseball at Harvard) have embraced sabermetrics as a valuable tool, current Ivy League ball players are much more likely to get drafted by front offices that still rely heavily on tools-based scouting...
Compare those numbers to those of Landon Powell, a catcher from South Carolina that was selected in the first round of the same draft by the most famous figure of stats-based scouting, Oakland GM Billy Beane. Powell batted .330-.427-.611 in 270 at-bats. If you make the overly simplifying assumption that OPS is an indicator of success, Farkes’ numbers are better. But they are also more difficult to trust...
...point is that in a poetic turn of events, Knicks fans at long last got what they wished for and Scott Layden was no longer GM. He was gone. Some people in 2004 actually seemed to begin the “FIRE LAYDEN” chant and then suddenly stop, stunned. Others obnoxiously continued anyway. Those others were my friends...
...life story would make a pretty cool movie. The son and nephew of GM factory workers, Moore was educated by nuns and Jesuits, and at 14 he briefly attended a seminary and had thoughts of becoming a priest. Eagle scout; expert hunter; good student. After disagreeing with a policy at his high school, he ran for the Davison County school board--and won, making him, at 18, one of the youngest elected officials in the nation...