Word: okrentã
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Indeed, Harvard’s intellectual climate helped bring about Okrent??s epiphany. According to Wall Street Journal reporter Sam Walker’s recent book “Fantasyland,” an authoritative dissection of what he appropriately calls “baseball’s lunatic fringe,” the first form of Rotisserie baseball began at Harvard way back in 1960. Bill Gamson, a research associate in social psychology at the Harvard School of Public Health, invented the “Baseball Seminar,” a precursor to today?...
...fellow at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics this fall. Nagourney—himself a target of a 2004 Okrent column criticizing the Times’ coverage of the Howard Dean campaign—said much of that skepticism evaporated by the end of Okrent??s tenure...
...Okrent??s criticism of the Times’ reporting on Iraq’s weapons in the run-up to the war led the paper to print an extensive editor’s note addressing the matter, Calame said, even though the note ran before Okrent??s column on the issue appeared...
Alex Jones, the director of the Shorenstein Center and a former media reporter for the Times who has written a history of the paper, said Okrent??s status as a founding father of fantasy baseball was not a factor in his selection as one of ten fellows for this academic year out of a pool of 75 applicants...
...sure that was an achievement,” Jones said of Okrent??s invention, “but not the achievement we were interested...