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Moreover, a manager’s decisions fail as often as they succeed, depending on luck or the smallest minutiae of a player’s performance. A manager might make the logical call to take out a starting pitcher after 130 pitches over eight and two-thirds shutout innings in a 1-0 game, but fans and pundits will cry foul if the next batter hits a home...
...Aditi Balakrishna ’10, a Crimson associate managing editor, is a neurobiology concentrator in Adams House. Not unlike Tobias, she’s going to take her actor’s pants off for a minute and pull her an-alrapist stocking over her head...
...take on the FARC. I'm sure he can handle a few Wall Street bankers while making sure that the taxpayer money is being spent wisely and legally." - Democratic Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York on Barofsky's confirmation. (Politico.com, December...
...even if Congress passes the health-care-reform legislation that Obama wants, it will take years to implement. Can the Democrats change things fast enough that health care won't be a liability for Obama if and when he runs for re-election? Absolutely. Put in guaranteed issue and community rating at once, so people cannot be turned down for insurance in the private sector, nor can they have their insurance taken away because of an illness. He'll get huge credit for that and there's no budgetary cost...
...dramatic reforms necessary to allow the yuan to be a true international player. Making the yuan a freely traded currency would mean losing control over its value and flows of capital in and out of the country. This is a step Beijing's economic policymakers remain fearful of taking, since they still feel the need to protect China's developing domestic financial sector from shifts in the global economy. China sees its controlled currency as a "dam surrounding a reservoir, and the government doesn't know what would happen if it blew up the dam," says David Li, an economist...