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...Traditionalists may still moan that cricket and cash mix about as well as crumpets and curry. But the game began its commercial revolution three decades ago when Australian media magnate Kerry Packer, who died last December, broke away from the sports establishment and signed 50 top players to his World Series Cricket. Packer's venture was short-lived, but his innovations?white balls, colored team strips, floodlights and high player salaries?stuck. Today, a second commercial upheaval is evident in the number of companies vying for a slice of cricket's growth on the subcontinent. Nimbus...
...courses previously, Sadler said.Students who bypass the introductory level courses with AP scores eventually perform worse in higher level courses, Sadler said, citing additional findings of the study.The College Board, which administers the AP exams, has disputed the study’s findings.The executive director of College Board, Trevor Packer, said the study’s sample size was too small to be meaningful, adding that other studies conducted with larger sample sizes yielded results contradicting Sadler and Tai’s findings.Packer also said that Harvard—which issued a press release trumpeting Sadler’s findings?...
...DIED. KERRY PACKER, 68, brash Australian tycoon whose $5 billion fortune made him the country's richest person; in Sydney. Packer took over his family's media empire, Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd., in 1974, and expanded it into areas including gambling, real estate and gemstone exploration. His TV-friendly World Series Cricket, with shorter matches, colorful uniforms and night games, helped revitalize public enthusiasm for the sport. Packer suffered a heart attack in 1990 and was dead for eight minutes before being revived, later prompting him to tell a talk-show host, "The good news is there's no devil...
...George Packer...
...very discouraging account of the war in Iraq so far, from its flawed inception to its chaotic daily execution. Packer, a staff writer for The New Yorker, begins as "an ambivalently prowar liberal", siding with Iraqi exile friends in their hatred of Saddam but skeptical of the Bush Administration neo-conservatives who thought Iraq could easily be transformed into a pro-American democracy. In Packer's deeply persuasive telling, their false assumptions and inadequate planning ensure that the war will procede down a path into deepening chaos, and it does...