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...shedding tears for what many view as a bunch of crybabies. As often happens in this combative, litigious industry, both sides are waging the battle as furiously in the regulatory arena as in the marketplace, sparking debate about the very nature of competition. Scott Cleland, CEO of the Precursor Group, an independent investment-research firm in Washington, thinks the Bells have a legitimate beef. "Do we want a marketplace of forced reallocation of wealth," he asks, "where shareholders pay consumers?" Certainly investors don't. The Bell stocks are widely held, and some Americans end up saving less on their phone...
DIED. LONNIE DONEGAN, 71, Scottish rock and blues musician who in the 1950s introduced Britain to "skiffle"--a precursor to rock 'n' roll that combines folk, jug band, country, jazz and blues--inspiring musicians like John Lennon, Van Morrison and Pete Townshend; after a long battle with heart ailments; in Peterborough, England. Among his hits were Rock Island Line and Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor (on the Bedpost Overnight...
...idea behind RPG is not new. In 1977, Morris’ friend Thomas Cover, now Li Professor of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford, published an article in the Journal of Operations Research that introduced the precursor to RPG, Offensive Earned Run Average (OERA). “We wanted a simple statistic that would summarize the offensive power of a player,” Cover says. “We imagined putting the batter in all nine positions and seeing how many runs he would generate.” Using an elaborate process called matrix inversion and the 24-square...
...viewer expects the girl to, at any moment, put the cup down and walk out of the painting to the next party. Perhaps the “psychological insight” that Bell feels for the friends she paints adds to the dynamism of the painting, which is a precursor to a thesis on coupled figures and their relationship to one another...
...religions, is the question “Who is the self? Who is the self asking this question?” His 1999 “Reflections,” at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum, can be seen as a sort of intellectual precursor to the Seers Project. In the former, two people enter a chamber and sit on either side of a two-way mirror, which reflects one’s own image while blending it with that of the other person. As the identities of strangers are merged, each becomes conscious of the Other...