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...Sacramento Kings. Donaghy claimed he wasn't the only rogue referee, as he described a corrupt culture in which refs would play tennis with coaches, ask players for autographs, and accept free meals and gifts from coaches and team officials. He said one ref was so close to a particular general manager that he deliberately made calls in his favor...
...particular, Johnson plans to use his math background to spot trends and further improve the league's already sophisticated data analysis and video-feedback systems. "I've got this chart sitting in front of my desk comparing preseason travels, offensive three-second calls and defensive three-second calls for the past two years," he says. "I can sit here and determine if there's a statistically significant difference." If a certain type of violation is being called with more or less frequency, Johnson plans to figure out what's driving the change. His two biggest priorities are lowering the number...
...started,” he said. “There are a lot of statistics, but an important one is that 100 percent of start-ups that don’t start fail,” he said. Wenger also spoke about the difficulties associated with start-ups in particular. “Being able to handle failure well is an entrepreneurial requisite,” he said. Shankar G. Ramaswamy ’11 said he found Wenger’s words helpful in considering future developments for his own start-up, which he is working on with David...
...should consolidate special needs classrooms to make the most of existing teachers and both tangible and intangible resources, such as funding and experience teaching children with special needs. Additionally, schools should generate more comprehensive Individual Education Programs. Mandated under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, an IEP addresses the particular needs of each child and theoretically ensures that the school focuses instruction in a way that is receptive to the child’s needs. By creating more thorough IEPs, schools could identify which children would, in the short-term, be best suited to the atmosphere currently found in private...
Absolutely. For all of our differences on how particular issues should be resolved, activists across the spectrum have more in common with each other than we do with members of the public who don't care about these issues. Take the head of the Christian Coalition's legal arm, Jay Sekulow. He cares passionately about exactly the same issues I care passionately about. Obviously we deeply disagree on abortion and gay rights. But we have strong agreement on freedom of speech and free exercise of religion. The ACLU absolutely defends the free speech rights of anti-abortion protestors...