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Enter Brook, who was kind enough to model as our fictional character called "the cannonball guy." Like the photographer in "Isn't It Strange," the cannonball guy has a few inconsistencies up in his thinking dome, and tries to launch himself out of a warehouse window from a "trash-can cannon." The album, then, is entitled Hello Cannonball...
...remedy this, the U.S. Census Bureau has proposed using statistical sampling to improve the accuracy of the final tally. That means they would do an actual physical count of as many people as they can find in a given census tract, and then employ a mathematical model to fill in the holes...
...Sounds sort of reasonable. Perhaps, but not to Republicans who find the idea of sampling threatening and intolerable and downright unconstitutional. They claim that the constitution means counting every person in the flesh, not some fancy statistical model put together by statisticians and sociologists to imagine people who may not actually exist. And who, if they did really exist, would probably punch a hole for Al Gore...
...TIME: Do you see your business model changing...
...seems that the Brown search committee, a much more open model than Harvard's own, has made an excellent choice. A campus advisory committee including faculty, staff, graduate students and undergraduates helped the Brown Corporation arrive at the decision that Simmons is the best choice. Harvard's secretive search committee, made up solely of members of the Harvard Corporation and Overseers, is unfortunately not open to this formal avenue of input...