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...sports.More and more, general managers supplement the advice of scouts with computer-generated projections and analysis. The trend has sparked resistance from old-school hardliners who contend that the statistical approach takes away from the human side of sports.“That’s really the big thing that emerged in the past few years,” says Jason Rosenfeld, Co-President of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective (HSAC). “You have people with a computer figuring out something and giving an answer and people like scouts giving an answer and it might conflict...
...that's the thing about chatter: it usually makes sense only in context, when you have a lot of other information at your fingertips. (Watch TIME's video on the risks of chatter...
Instead, the task force talked to Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell ($175,000), Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter ($167,000) and United Steelworkers of America president Leo Gerard (who reportedly earns over $170,000). "[The Vice President] is doing the right thing," says Karen Nussbaum, executive director of Working America, "but hearing directly from working people who are struggling and finding their way is an essential part of this...
Scholars who have made it their life's work to study Pakistan often conclude that the only thing that unites this discordant nation of tribes, ethnicities, cultures and languages is religion. In 1947 the nation was born as an Islamic state, a refuge for a persecuted minority fleeing the Hindu dominance of India, newly liberated from colonial rule. Yet 60-odd years later, even as contraband Johnny Walker is liberally poured into the glasses of those who can afford it, Shari'a, or Islamic law, is declared in a district not far from the capital as a concession...
...beyond regional boundaries. But an attack on cricket is a body blow that will not so easily be shrugged off. Imran Khan, the Pakistani cricket star turned politician, scoffed at the Australians when they decided not to play in Pakistan last year. No terrorist would dare threaten the one thing all Pakistanis hold sacred, Khan reasoned, for fear of the inevitable backlash. Sadly and tragically, Khan has now been proved wrong...