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...great was Bradman? If Tiger Woods dominates golf for another 15 years, perhaps he will have a peer. For now, no other sport has seen his like. Dissenters have suggested he wasn't the most marvelous, that some other batsman was more elegant, another more powerful or charismatic. But always Bradman's record destroys their claim. Between 1928 and 1948 he played 52 Tests, in which he scored 6,996 runs at an average of 99.94. For cricket followers, it is that average, pondered even for the thousandth time, which bewilders. The next best: South African Graeme Pollock...
...Riester says Germany's laws regarding so-called works councils-peer groups elected by employees to be liaisons with management-have tethered industrial workers to their companies for everyone's benefit; he thinks service and technology workers can benefit too. Müller concedes the laws delivered a certain stability in a world where stability mattered, but he argues that world no longer exists. He warns that expanding the law, as the government is about to do, will make Germany less competitive. As for Schr?der, backed by the unions but committed to growing his economy through tax reform...
...program at Duke University. There, she reported, "swing was the hottest thing, and kids from all over the country were learning from the counselors." Dancing with her was Stephanie Skupien, 17, who had noticed that in her high school, "swing is so popular that there's a lot of peer pressure to learn the right steps...
...Harvard faculty] do a lot of outside reviewing and peer reviewing," she said. "Our faculty have to play a leadership role in their fields...
...tenure to student services to contract negotiations, the committee's choice will have an enormous impact on the lives and workplaces of everyone in the Harvard community. As such, it is only just that every member of the University be given a formal voice in the selection process. Many peer institutions, including Brown and Princeton, recognize the necessity of broad participation in deliberative processes like the presidential search--why doesn't Harvard...