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...Pararas ’08-’09, who is also a former Crimson magazine writer. Officers at the scene referred requests for comment to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano. After a performance by steppers from the Black Men’s Forum, technicians had to adjust the setup of the stage. As the packed crowd waited for Girl Talk, the stage name of Gregg Gillis, to perform, Fun Czar Jason B. McCoy ’08 called for concertgoers to move back. Students squeezed up against the stage posed a safety concern because there were no concert barriers...
...learn anything from the amateurs? While college football's overtime format may be more fair than pro's, it is absurd in a different way. In many respects, the setup feels like a game kids play at recess. Forgoing kickoffs altogether, each team receives the ball at the opponent's 25-yard line, meaning that without moving an inch, a team is already in field goal range. Teams alternate drives towards the end zone, until one team scores more than the other in an individual possession, or period (to try to move things along, the teams must...
...rule changes have boosted competition in the last five years by helping to narrow the gap between the fastest and slowest cars by two to three seconds. Now the global financial crisis has added a new sense of urgency to organizers' efforts to make racing more competitive. The current setup, with big teams depending on "massive handouts from their parent companies" and small independent teams relying on "the goodwill of rich individuals," is "unsustainable," according to a memo given to teams in October by the FIA, world motor sport's governing body. The FIA's answer: Slash the cost...
...Convention in July. Under Jack Watson, who had worked on Carter's successful Georgia gubernatorial campaign, the transition team worked throughout the general election, preparing for what would happen in the event of victory. Carter had made it clear early on that he did not want to mirror the setup and size of Richard Nixon's White House staff; specifically, Carter refused to even name anyone chief of staff, instead changing the title to "assistant to the president." The early planning backfired, however, as a power struggle emerged between campaign staffers and transition coordinators when it came time to choose...
...gone very, very wrong. Like a Super Bowl referee, she's perfectly anonymous if she does her job right, a name in the news only if she blows the call. "We have a quite lovely studio, right near the anchor's desk," Frankovic says of her crew's setup. "There's even a camera in the room. But my goal for election night: not to be on camera...