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...tournament was arranged in a round-robin format. Blue and brown, the basketball teams with the best records in the preliminary rounds, played in the finals...
...know about author A.A. Milne is that through a combination of obliviousness and neglect, he saddled his only son Christopher with a perfectly awful childhood--a fact that rocked the world in 1974 when Christopher Milne's memoir The Enchanted Places first appeared. In it, the "real" Christopher Robin painted the portrait of a father who was cold and remote, with whom thrice daily visits were a matter of pro forma routine. He also revealed his youthful anguish and embarrassment over a notoriety he was never able to escape...
...point of having an eight-team tournament divided into two pools of round-robin play is to make sure that one loss doesn't kill a team; that is, a squad can go 2-1 in its pool and still win the tournament...
...study found that a one percent increase in the Robin Hood Index, used to measure income inequality, was associated with an increase in the total mortality rate of 21 deaths per 100,000 people...
...called Robin Hood measure of income inequality has never before been applied to health until this study," he said...