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In March, Warren Buffett, one of the greatest value creators of all time, used a CNBC interview to give some unsolicited advice to Mr. Cook, who was then being hounded by Mr. Einhorn. “I would ignore [Einhorn],” he said. “I would run the business in such a manner as to create the most value over the next five or 10 years. You can’t run a business to try and run the stock up every day.”
In March, Warren Buffett, one of the greatest value creators of all time, used a CNBC interview to give some unsolicited advice to Mr. Cook, who was then being hounded by Mr. Einhorn. “I would ignore [Einhorn],” he said. “I would run the business in such a manner as to create the most value over the next five or 10 years. You can’t run a business to try and run the stock up every day.”
A month later, Mr. Cook made his $100-billion distribution commitment. With Samsung and a few other rivals coming on strong, and Apple fiddling with updates of existing products, could this money not be put to better use?</html>
A month later, Mr. Cook made his $100-billion distribution commitment. With Samsung and a few other rivals coming on strong, and Apple fiddling with updates of existing products, could this money not be put to better use?</html>
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== Pound for Pound, the World’s Best Athlete- ==
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<html>I once got in a fight with a friend over whether or not  from the Los Angeles Lakers posed an existential threat to the franchise.&nbsp; Granted, I was in middle school, a time when my brain was regularly ingesting a toxic hormonal cocktail, when I decided to have what amounted to a sloppy slap fight over whether the departure of a man whom neither my friend nor I knew would fatally wound a sports franchise whose fortunes we followed only six months out of the year.&nbsp; But to attribute my rapid shift from dork to duking with hazard entirely to the addling of adolescence would elide one incontestable fact:&nbsp; If my now middle-aged friend and I were to revisit our dispute today,[http://estudy.spbstu.ru/index.php/%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:Benniekern1#Rick_Herron.2C_original_Linemaker.2C_passes_away_in_Las_Vegas Rick Herron, original Linemaker, passes away in Las Vegas], I would still clock him.<br>
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It is one of the pungent ironies of our media age that at a time when television and the web allow us both to witness and to participate in debates about topics ranging from  to the sublime, the art of debate may be at its lowest point since Foghorn Leghorn responded to every trenchant point made by  with a condescending Now, boy . &nbsp; Political argumentation, in particular,[http://www.fantomet.net/index.php?title=Bruker:Benniekern2#Gareth_Bale_unveiled_at_Real_Madrid_as_thousands_pack_Bernab Gareth Bale unveiled at Real Madrid as thousands pack Bernab], has managed to become rancid, puerile, and disingenuous, making it a three tool player that could compete for a spot on John Waters roster.&nbsp; It is the last of these qualities that, to my mind, makes political debates so exasperating.<br>
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Sports debates can be rancid and puerile, but they are also invariably sincere.&nbsp; Every sports fan s judgment is colored by some sectarian commitment, whether it be to a particular sport, franchise, player, or coach, and thus genuine debate rarely occurs.&nbsp; One can, however, trust that the parties in a dispute about, for example, whether the New York Yankees or the Montreal Canadiens is the best sports franchise of all time believe everything that they say, even if what they say is so delusional that it could only be uttered by a Yankees fan.<br>
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As the above example suggests, sports fans like to make cross-sports comparisons, many of which can be distilled down to the familiar Which sport has the best athletes? question that has not been answered to anyone s satisfaction since Jim Thorpe said,[http://wikijava.org.ua/index.php?title=%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:Benniekern5#Packers_sign_Seneca_Wallace_to_back_up_Aaron_Rodgers Packers sign Seneca Wallace to back up Aaron Rodgers], Thanks, King to King Gustav of Sweden and got away with it because he was really good with a javelin.<br>
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When track and field was a sport followed by people other than Belgians, most of us were content to accept the sports journalism decree that the Olympic decathlon champion was the world s greatest athlete. &nbsp; But the ESPNing of America has narrowed the focus of sports fans to a handful of major sports, with the consequence that most greatest athlete debates are now similar to the debates among the leaders of the Big Four powers at the :&nbsp; Colloquies that purport to take in the entire world but are actually so parochial that broaching the sports equivalent of Poland which I believe would be volleyball is considered to be an egregious break with decorum.&nbsp;<br>
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It is thus unsurprising that jockeys are rarely if ever considered to be worthy of the greatest athlete title.&nbsp; Unsurprising, yes, but also unjust.&nbsp; As Laura Hillenbrand wrote in her book on the , To pilot a racehorse is to ride a half-ton catapult.&nbsp; It is without question one of the most formidable feats in sports.&nbsp; The extraordinary athleticism of the jockey is unparalleled:&nbsp; A study of the elements of athleticism conducted by Los Angeles exercise physiologists and physicians found that of all major sports competitors, jockeys may be, pound for pound, the best overall athletes. <br>
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One of the odd properties of talent is that it often hides in plain sight.&nbsp; A documentary currently circulating through theaters entitled  chronicles the careers of a small number of backup singers, all of whom have performed on both the recordings and the tours of such iconic rock acts as The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,[http://www.jels.cz/w/index.php?title=U%C5%BEivatel:Benniekern1#Brandon_Marshall Brandon Marshall], David Bowie,[http://www.kolping-ennepetal.de/Volker/wiki/index.php?title=Benutzer:Benniekern5#St._Cloud_jeweler_takes_2nd_in_contest St. Cloud jeweler takes 2nd in contest], and Sting.&nbsp; The film claims in an understated but unambiguous way that these almost exclusively African American women have profoundly influenced the rock sound, with its now familiar notes of R B, gospel, and jazz, while remaining so obscure to most fans that one of them, Darlene Love, could clean houses during a low point in her career without fear of being recognized by her employers.<br>
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Jockeys are center stage on a handful of occasions during the year, but for most sports fans and journalists they remain merely cloudy images on the periphery of their vision.&nbsp; What moves to the center of and what languishes on the margins of our vision, however, is often nothing more than an artifact of our idiosyncratic histories, our placement in space, and the designs of others.<br>
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We in Saratoga Springs have the good fortune each summer to be able to step out of the shadow of the sports media industrial complex to view the best athletes in sports ply their craft.&nbsp; It is a short-lived but precious opportunity to view these catapult riders while they, for a brief time, occupy the center, where they belong.<br>
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Despite a deep-seated and long-held belief that he would have made a better Nathan Detroit than Frank Sinatra, Ron Seyb opted instead to become the Joseph C. Palamountain Jr. Chair in Government at Skidmore College, where he writes a periodic humor column for Saratoga Wire.<br>
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