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There's no guesswork in Art Spiegelman's graphic novel In the Shadow of No Towers (Pantheon; 38 pages), but there isn't much education either. Spiegelman is also a Pulitzer winner, as it happens, for Maus, a bleakly beautiful comic about the Holocaust. In the Shadow of No Towers--the title is a bad poem in one line--is Spiegelman's very personal take on the destruction of the World Trade Center in 10 monumental (14 1/2in. by 19 1/2in.), full-color episodes. The attacks left Spiegelman in a traumatized, neurasthenic state. (MISSING, proclaims a poster, A. SPIEGELMAN...
...call inclusions--even the densest scoop of the richest brand can fall apart. "Any inclusion larger than three-quarters of an inch may be too big," says Kester, scooping up a handful of cake pieces and tossing them into a bowl of white ice cream base. "Sometimes it's guesswork...
...sound as if psychographics and the Psychic Friends Network have a lot in common. But LifeMatrix's proponents say the system isn't guesswork. A variety of inputs, including public- opinion polls and media usage, is used to create categories that accurately reflect personality types. Ed Keller, president of RoperASW, says companies applying LifeMatrix to their customer databases will have far greater success in predicting what those customers will buy. Keller says researchers using demographic data alone can correctly guess what kind of car an individual will buy only 18% of the time. But "when you combine people's attitudes...
...what you’d call ‘body scouts’. And if you come here, look at a guy’s frame, you’ll be right about as much of the time [as anyone else]. It’s all guesswork...
...invocation of Ben Crockett ’02, who is off to a good start in the minors, is a reminder that good things can come of the guesswork; it wasn’t long ago that Crockett and Yale’s Jon Steitz filled those stands completely. But today’s star arguably isn’t who the scouts came in for. Schutt falters in the later innings while Arthur Hendricks III, Harvard pitcher, tosses eight strong against the Big Red, striking out 11 and—perhaps—forcing the assembled scouts to give...