But Colangelo, a former chair of the competition committee, felt the NBA game had become so repellent and unwatchable that some ad hoc adjudication was in order. Colangelo enumerated some of his ideas for Stern,
White was the seventh head coach to leave or be fired in the WNBA this offseason, meaning a majority of the league's twelve teams will be under new leadership next season. Considering the explosive growth the league saw in 2024, it's clear that the stakes are ramping up for leaders at...
The European nation’s energy revolution has made it a leader in replacing nukes and fossil fuels with wind and solar technology.
Despite early attempts in the U.S. after the revolutionary war to form a central bank by Alexander Hamilton, these efforts failed due to political unfeasibility. After the panic of 1907, and at the urging of J.P. Morgan and other prominent financiers, Congress eventually formed the Federal ...
Now the world’s second-richest man and foremost itinerant advocate for the poor was in Abuja, Nigeria, talking about the same theme that had underlain all of these speeches: the need to invest in “human capital.” Among those gathered at the conference center, in the shadow of the Aso ...
taxidermist George Dante got the call. When the tortoise Lonesome George, emblem of the Galápagos Islands, died, it was Dante who was tasked with restoring him. But Dante, who is one of the world’s most respected taxidermists, has never done what I’m asking him to do. No one has....
The idea is to view a company through the eyes of theoretical new owners looking to form a new investment thesis and, in doing so, acknowledge that both the company and the external environment will have changed meaningfully since the previous investment thesis was f...
When was the last time you changed your mind and how did someone help you to make that leap? Questioning an opinion and having ours questioned is how we develop better ideas. Untested theories may be great. Or they might be trash. We can’t truly know if we’re right if we’re busy...
"nothing was ever good enough formy mother . I was glad to leave her when Imarried your father. Well, it's too late to tell her now, and she wouldn't understand anyway. And I know she did love me, even ifshe never said so. If she didn't, she wouldn't have cared whether ...
A tree shook;an electric light danced;the tone of the talk was comic,but also tragic;a whole vision;an entire conception,seemed contained in that moment. 书既然有小说,传记,诗歌之分,就应区别对待,从各类书中取其应该给及我们的东西。这话说来很简单。然而很少有人向书索取它能给我们的东西,我们...