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...until now fans of his guitar playing have had to cobble together tapes of the two or three instrumentals per album from among mostly vocal selections, a problem that has been elegantly remedied by the release of this, the first of four Watson retrospective CDs. The handsome package and excellent liner notes show due appreciation for Watson's legacy, but even in a brown paper wrapper this collection would be essential for anyone with an interest in acoustic steel-string guitar. Aficionados will regret the omission of the classic "Beaumont Rag," but flatpicking touchstones such as "Black Mountain...
...Brien says assigning sections poses a similar problem...
...fallen under a great deal of controversy since its inception, since people have a natural aversion to using computers to determine their fate. Most arguments against the BCS have focused on the computer rankings which favor teams that run up the score. But the biggest problem with the BCS is its overemphasis on strength of schedule...
Although every voter and computer will place a different emphasis on strength of schedule, the combined opinions of each should, in theory, produce rankings which give the optimal weight to strength of schedule. The problem, however, is that by using strength of schedule as an additional factor in the rankings, it is given far more weight than the average desired weight of computers and voters, and possibly far more weight than any single computer or living human being would ever want...
...problem is the primaries...