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...lunatic fringe,” the first form of Rotisserie baseball began at Harvard way back in 1960. Bill Gamson, a research associate in social psychology at the Harvard School of Public Health, invented the “Baseball Seminar,” a precursor to today??s national phenomenon in which players spent an imaginary $100,000 in bidding for players who amassed points in four statistical categories. Okrent, as Walker reports, was inspired to create the modern incarnation of Rotisserie by helping a close friend from the University of Michigan, where Gamson moved from Harvard, make...
...music and Rastafarian culture in the US. It’s understandable that every bit of material from such a widely loved artist would be released at some point. Yet name recognition alone ensures that a Marley compilation will sell far better than any contemporary reggae release, even if today??s sound is more deserving. Unfortunately, this is the case with “One Love: Bob Marley and the Wailers at Studio One,” a portrait of Marley before he had achieved his later iconic status or developed the musical chops that would earn...
...catering to the lifestyle and time requirements that today??s busy customer has,” she says...
...spell it, but I had rarely thought about how that one word, and the whole experience in general, made a difference in my life until a recent string of unrelated spelling events. I often debate with friends of mine about the value of spelling in today??s modern society. They argue that spell check will always be there to save the day (though the poem above suggests otherwise). I argue that spelling skills are something to be proud of, and they save time and embarrassment. I also personally hate Word’s squiggly red lines, so spelling...
...magazine whose primary sponsor is the Coca-Cola Company was door-dropped across campus on Friday with a spread on campus campaigns against Coke, as well as a full page rebuttal from the company to allegations of human rights abuses.Writing in the Princeton University-based “Business Today??—which says it reaches 150,000 readers nationwide—Coke’s Director of Global Labor Relations and Workplace Accountability Edward E. Potter said that the soft drink maker “respects the rights of workers.”The magazine bills...