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...later cut back on, and had fallen further behind Google in generating revenue from its huge audience. Last November an agent provocateur emerged in Brad Garlinghouse, a senior vice president, whose leaked memo became known as the Peanut Butter Manifesto. He argued passionately that Yahoo! was wasting its talent by distributing its resources like peanut butter on a widening slice of bread. "The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do and thus we focus on nothing in particular," Garlinghouse wrote. "I hate peanut butter. We all should." He criticized the company's services for competing with...
...superior racehorses have their Secretariat moment, that brief stitch in time when they reveal the true measure of their talent, and for BARBARO that instant arose as the horses came charging to the turn for home in the 2006 Kentucky Derby. Lying dangerously close to a fiery pace, the colt rushed to the lead and--following one of the fastest final quarter miles in Derby history--won the Roses by nearly seven lengths, the longest Derby victory margin in 60 years. I had witnessed every Derby but one since 1972, and Barbaro struck me--for his sheer athleticism, his explosive...
Starting off with the easiest of the batch. Brown, without emergent talent Keenan Jeppesen, who jumped ship after seven games, might be the worst team in the league. And the Pizzatola Center is one of the arenas rivaling Lavietes for worst home court advantage. Set the over/under for fans in attendance at the number of points Penn will score—86—in easily slaying the Bears...
...there still remains talent in the frontcourt to aid in Unger’s progress. Sophomore Evan Harris, with not the height but the wingspan of a seven-footer, will combine with senior Brian Darcy, a low-post offensive presence, to bolster the 4-5 rotations...
...students, the task force’s work represents a remarkably intense piece of internal criticism from a group of senior professors.The report paints a sobering picture of Harvard’s current teaching culture, in which effective classroom guidance is considered a matter of “individual talent, choice, or valor,” not something FAS sufficiently acknowledges or rewards.“There are a lot of people who care intensely about teaching, but a lot of those same people think the institution doesn’t care,” Skocpol said in an interview...