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...support old scouting models, in which you just take the guy who looks like he plays the best. My take on it is that what you're looking for is a balance between these two things. I remember once having a conversation with a top executive with the Toronto Raptors. I asked her about the stats revolution in basketball and she just kind of shrugged and said, "It's interesting, and we look at those things, but you have to understand that for our purposes, it's all [about] character." The thing that separates players is that some have...
References of post-punk today aspire to fill a gaping hole left by the conformity of pop music with the spirit of erstwhile anarchy. “Concepts,” the first full-length album by Toronto-based new wave post-punk band Little Girls, aims to recreate this early-’80s recalcitrant feeling but falls short of succeeding. Pairing distinct, minor guitar riffs with scratchy and ethereal vocals, the duo—fronted by multi-instrumentalist Joel McIntyre of Pirate/Rock—brings to mind British post-punk staple Joy Division...
...There's no doubt that a recovery is at hand," says economist Krishen Rangasamy of Toronto-based CIBC World Markets. "But the strong Canadian dollar will act as a break on the Canadian economy." He expects Canada's GDP to grow at an annualized rate of 3.3% in the fourth quarter, and 2% in 2010. This compares with CIBC's lower estimate of GDP growth for the U.S., with 2.4% expected for the fourth quarter...
...Since I’ve come to Harvard,] I’ve cut down from saying ‘eh’ every other sentence to maybe twice an hour,” said Rylie X. Zhang ’13 of Toronto...
...years, Richard Pierre found job candidates on popular work-search websites with postings for positions like a $70,000-a-year gig to be a programmer analyst in Toronto. The problem: Pierre wasn't an employer but a huckster who wound up stealing personal information from dozens of job seekers, fraudulently opening 44 credit cards and racking up some $300,000 in charges...