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...Coaches tend to take themselves very seriously these days. The line about a coach being only as good as his players is simplistic, but contains more than a kernel of truth. All he can do is help them to perform at the outer edges of their ability. To this end, loads of money, whiz-bang training facilities and umpteen assistants usually help, but boiled down, all sports are pretty simple. In testing times, the wise coach steers his team back to first principles. In Bill's speech of 20 years ago, old stagers like Bennett, Jones and Buchanan might just...
...want to reconsider its policies every time a group can claim they are doing really valuable work.The debate over the military becomes most difficult when it veers into the dangerous and muddy waters of class. As most everybody knows, the people who fight America’s wars tend to come from America’s most disadvantaged groups. This gives a populist tinge to a lot of militarist rhetoric. The troops whose mission I undermine every time I take the silver spoon out of my mouth long enough to speak are the same huddled masses my fellow liberals...
...scale problem is this: as a stock fund swells with assets, the manager, who usually operates with limits on how much of any one stock can be in the fund, must find ever more winning stocks. And managers of big funds tend to have fewer choices because they focus on shares of big companies. That's because shares of small companies, whose price moves quickly with big trades, tend to quickly get too expensive. And since most funds have restrictions on the percentage of any one company they can own, with a small company even a smart pick has little...
Artists, you'd think, would make the perfect subject matter for stories. They drink! They fight! They cut off their ears! So many things they do are fascinating-except, that is, for making art. That may be why so many movies and novels about creative types tend to focus on their personal lives. Even James Joyce ended A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, pursued his art. Dedalus moving from house to house because his father is broke: interesting. Dedalus rewriting a tricky patch of dialogue: not so much...
...from an understanding of how environment shapes behavior. Professor Stilgoe uses shopping mall design as an example: “If you walk through a shopping mall concourse you’ll notice large groups of people stopping and gathering in spaces with raised ceilings. Designers understand that people tend to congregate in spaces with high ceilings, and they place them strategically to encourage shoppers to slow down and buy.” DR. STILGOE’S PRESCRIPTIONProfessor Stilgoe is alarmed by what he perceives as diminishing environmental awareness among Harvard students. He states...