c*******e
发帖数: 5818 | 1 另一个，trump用老百姓的话讲就是私下会做人，给大家都留面。cruz 是很shrewd，基
本就是为自己，私下估计很傲慢，有消息说，在国会开会，如果有cruz在，会很快就结
束了，没人愿意和他多待。 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 2 Establishment Republicans reacted with a mix of shock, anger and sadness at
Chris Christie’s endorsement of Donald Trump on Friday, a stunning move
that undermines the GOP mainstream's efforts to prop up Marco Rubio’s
campaign against Trump.
“It’s pretty disgusting why he did it because he’s opportunistic,” said
Tony Fratto of Hamilton Place Strategies, who worked in the George W. Bush
White House. “His days of leadership in the Republican Party are done.”
Fratto also brought up how Christie had... 阅读全帖 |
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d*****s
发帖数: 5610 | 3 Trump今年利用了GOP的讲台，做了Wallace的事情。
我预测2020会出现类似Trump的GOPer，但是没有Trump那么多的baggage。
In 1968, George Wallace ran as a third-party candidate against Nixon and
Humphrey, on an explicitly segregationist platform. Humphrey had been the
main champion of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the Senate; Nixon, while no
civil rights activist, rejected an overtly racist platform. Feeling
abandoned by both parties, Southern white racists flocked to Wallace's cause
, winning him the Deep South states of Ark., La., Miss... 阅读全帖 |
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d*****s
发帖数: 5610 | 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_the_United_States#Nixon_
administration
The first federal policy of race-conscious affirmative action was the
Revised Philadelphia Plan, which required government contractors to set "
goals and timetables" for integrating and diversifying their workforce.
The strides that the Johnson presidency made in ensuring equal opportunity
in the workforce were further picked up by his successor Nixon. In 1969 the
Nixon administration initiated the "Phila... 阅读全帖 |
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g********2
发帖数: 6571 | 5 EXCLUSIVE: Weiner Is ‘A Perfect Target’ For Hacking Hillary’s Server
Ethan Barton
8:07 PM 11/01/2016
Former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York is a prime target for
hackers seeking to steal classified material on former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s private server, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s
Investigative Group has learned.
Weiner is a digital window to Clinton because his estranged wife – Huma
Abedin – is one of the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee’s closest
campaign ... 阅读全帖 |
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b******r
发帖数: 1619 | 6 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: bmwlover (bmwlover), 信区: Military
标 题: President Trump: Replace the Dollar with Gold as the Global Currency to Make America Great Again
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Feb 27 20:57:31 2017, 美东)
WTF?
Inside President Trump’s otherwise “standard Trump stump speech” at CPAC
was nestled what might be a most intriguing observation:
Global cooperation, dealing with other countries, getting along with other
countries is good, it’s very important. But there is no such thing as a
globa... 阅读全帖 |
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s*****l
发帖数: 7106 | 7 Is it true that Fox News has a conservative bias and CNN has a liberal bias?
Actually, Fox News continues to play an important role in the devolution of
CNN from a respectable (if often boring) utilitarian news outlet to what it
is today, which is, frankly, a hot mess.
This is what happened. Fox News found that leaning hard to the right (while
promulgating the fiction that it was “fair and balanced”) while employing
a lot of presenters with outsized personalities and controversial “hot
takes”... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 8 当年美帝很猛的，议员们拔剑对决。后来，才改称要文斗不要武斗。
Throughout the Senate's history, members, like baseball players, have taken
satisfaction from setting records. One exception was California Senator
David Broderick. In September 1859, Broderick established a record that
remains unbroken. He became the only sitting senator to die in a duel.
Broderick was born in Washington, D.C., in 1820, the son of a stonemason who
worked on the Capitol. His family later moved to New York City, where
Broderick worked as a stonemaso... 阅读全帖 |
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M******e
发帖数: 1193 | 9 某些印度人的迷之自信还是很令人敬佩的。
China is a shrewd and cunning nation. We had very bitter experience of China
since 1962. China is jealous about present aggressive leadership of India
and feeling it as threat to their dream to became big power in Asia. Its
spending on military will make it poor once economic deceleration start. |
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发帖数: 1 | 10 Time for American to have a shrewd leader |
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b*****h
发帖数: 3386 | 11 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/479c8416-082b-11de-8a33-0000779fd2ac.html
An epic battle looms over Obama’s big push
By Roger Altman
Published: March 3 2009 19:51 | Last updated: March 3 2009 19:51
If leadership is measured by seizing big opportunities that others do not
see, then Barack Obama is already proving himself a leader. His 2007
decision to run for president was audacious but shrewd. He saw the opening.
Now, he has judged that the severe economic crisis, his own soaring
popularity and Republ |
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r**m
发帖数: 1825 | 12 这本书是Benjamin Graham的名作之一，与Security Analysis(证券分析)并列为他最为
人所知的两本书。与Security Analysis着重于公司的分析有所不同，The Intelligent
Investor重点放在一般通用投资概念。此书写成于1971到72年间，距今36年前。可说
是有幸，也可说是不幸，书中许多的论述与观察，到今天，仍是切中要点。
这本书有几点特殊的地方。它的外观，很像英文小说，厚厚一本(核心内容近600页)，
白色略带灰黄的书页，图表不多，常常一翻开就是满满对开两页Graham滔滔不绝的道理
，是本重量巨作。
书的每一章(甚至包括Introduction)后面，都有Jason Zweig的评论。 Jason Zweig是
美国知名财经记者，写过许多精采且深入的文章，对指数化投资与Behavioral finance
颇有研究。我曾在绿角阅览室(Greenhorn's Reading Room)一文中，推荐过他的个人网
页。
Jason也广泛的替本文加入注解。不仅解释当时的规则到现在演变如何，当时葛拉汉的
预测，事后如何，也解释这个观点在... 阅读全帖 |
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o****y
发帖数: 790 | 13 Here is my dilemma, any shrewd strategist can offer a sound opinion?
Basically, I am a EE fresh PhD, facing three choices:
1. academic job: a 3rd tier (possibly 4th tier) research school in nowhere (
east coast), tenure-track.
2. industry job: a startup with good salary, got to stay in bay-area.
3. post-doc: I can get a researcher position in Berkeley for year, (their
project is quite visible and can potentially expand my academic breadth)
then put me back in market, hope to get in better school |
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m***y
发帖数: 14763 | 14 I figure you are confused.
上来就勇敢地直接咬，基本不太试探 are American, but they can't navigate in
the sun. The Asian got no problem with sunlight, but they are more shrewd,
always probing you and when you are tired, they sting you without being
noticed.
You are really doomed if you got both. |
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a******o
发帖数: 261 | 15 It's not so much that "美国这边不讲人情",but there's definitely more respect
for the rule of laws here.
In China there are regulations and laws too - but that only applies if you
don't have the "connection". As a result, having law on your side is no
guarantee. So if you are a peon, with no connections - even if knowing you
are right - how do you ensure you come out of a dispute favorably? Assemble
a crowd and make a scene seems to be the only viable option.
Here connections work similarly, but up to ... 阅读全帖 |
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M********2
发帖数: 940 | 16 seemingly reasonable with exceptions:
Your statement 1: those who return can't thrive in US.
Your statement 2: those who stay can't thrive in China.
On the surface, the symmetry of your statements looks eloquent.
Nevertheless, the consequence of the average returnees staying in US would
be much worse than being unable to thrive: they could well be confronted
with survival, as most of them don't or can't even get a green card.
On the other hand, those who stay (in US) may not thrive in China, bu... 阅读全帖 |
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x**x
发帖数: 92 | 17 you can give Shrewd VPN a try:
http://www.shrew.net/
It is a freeware and can import cisco pcf profile.
I only need to change one setting "phase2"->"fps=group2".
It works on Win7 64 bit and connects to my school VPN. |
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b******y
发帖数: 9224 | 18
I know, but I would rather be yahoo than tumblr.
It is funny that the article compares the founder of tumblr to Steve Jobs.
IMHO, Steve was quite different. Steve was a shrewd businessman and made
good money for Apple and himself; while the tumblr founder built a site with
no profit.
IMO, if you are doing business, you need to make money. Grabbing a lot of
eyeballs and then selling out is a weak man's game. |
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a*****n
发帖数: 89 | 19 Gary Busey is my all time favorite
crazy shrewd old gun |
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c*******9
发帖数: 6411 | 20 not a shrewd businessman |
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d******8
发帖数: 1972 | 21 Why Netflix Is Smarter Than Its Customers
Rick Newman, On Tuesday September 20, 2011, 12:20 pm EDT
Video-rental service Netflix has provoked a consumer firestorm--and probably
a few business-school case studies--with its recent plan to split its
operations in two. Its traditional business of delivering DVDs by mail will
henceforth be known as Qwikster, while "Netflix" will be reserved for the
service that streams video over the Internet. Customers used to getting both
services bundled together w... 阅读全帖 |
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h*******y
发帖数: 1220 | 22 It looks like they may have gotten some of their quotes wrong...
Here's the huffington post article they are quoting
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-biography-o
PCMAG
Jobs says he found Gates "fundamentally odd" and "weirdly flawed" as a
person. Although Jobs recognized Gates as a shrewd businessman, he never
thought of the Microsoft chief as an inventor.
Huffington
Bill Gates was fascinated by Steve Jobs but found him "fundamentally odd"
and "weirdly flawed as a human being,... 阅读全帖 |
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k********8
发帖数: 7948 | 23 http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/aug/12/george-soros-eng
George Soros celebrates 82nd birthday with engagement to Tamiko Bolton
40-year-old Bolton and 82-year-old billionaire investor met in 2008 and
announced planned wedding at Hamptons party
Billionaire investor George Soros had a lot to celebrate on Saturday evening
Bolton.
Soros and Bolton, who met in the spring of 2008, formally announced their
engagement at a party at Soros' summer home in Southampton, New York,
attended by a small ... 阅读全帖 |
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s**********o
发帖数: 14359 | 24 他就是一个SHREWD BUSINESSMAN |
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X****i
发帖数: 1877 | 25 ‘The Secret Club that Runs the World’, by Kate Kelly
Review by Gregory Meyer
An exposé of commodities markets may credit traders with too much power
The Secret Club that Runs the World: Inside the Fraternity of Commodity
Traders, by Kate Kelly, $29.95, 288 pages
On March 28 2011, Delta Air Lines delivered a plea to Washington. Traders
with no business in the oil market were pushing up the price of the 4bn
gallons of jet fuel Delta burnt each year. The Commodity Futures Trading
Commission needed ... 阅读全帖 |
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W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 26
he's just a shrewd businessman; knows nothing about macroeconomics |
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g*****7
发帖数: 32 | 27 Don't take it too seriously. Make a joke and turn lemon into lemonade. "
the question was too important that I forgot, like most of the significant
scientific discoveries"
One of the culture differences between American and Chinese is self mocking,
and the ability to create a huge and shrewd laughter among colleagues. |
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a*****e
发帖数: 223 | 28 Aren't they free coupons? I received the same coupon booklet every month in
my mailbox.
You are shrewd. |
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a****r
发帖数: 340 | 29 Divorce is good for the wife. It is good to throw away this cruel and shrewd
husband. She can make money by herself, not a big deal at all. |
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D***e
发帖数: 247 | 30 prudent, calculating, enterprising, shrewd, ....
Depending on how you like the person :) |
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M****7
发帖数: 13407 | 31 Yang Lan seems to be too shrewd. |
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s******g
发帖数: 2318 | 32 前天听NPR里讲到晚清末年一个统治中国43年的人，一想那不就是慈禧老佛爷嘛，果然
后面播音员发音cixi还是蛮准确地...从里面学了几个词 dowager，concubine...都说
兼听则明、
偏信则暗，咱看看老外眼里的慈禧太后，hehe
link：
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/19/143796431/powerful-portraits-capt
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, SC-GR 249
Empress Dowager Cixi poses with the wives of foreign envoys in Leshoutang,
the summer palace in Beijing, circa 1903-04.
text size A A A December 19, 2011 Intrigue! Riches! Sex! Some violence! Not
the latest movie plot, but a story that lurks in t... 阅读全帖 |
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L******t
发帖数: 1985 | 33 Make some sense. But shrewdness is not necessarily a bad thing.
For example, Jewish. |
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p*******3
发帖数: 88 | 34 I'm not making a major career change -- I know the domain very well -- it's
basically moving from PM to product line manager. But, I never had P&L
experience. Clearly, they know it's attractive to me, and they're being very
shrewd in low-balling me a little bit. |
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L******t
发帖数: 1985 | 35 Maybe we can have a vote on this?
Not saying V is impeccable. But he's not abnormal in this world. If he's
really shrewd kind, he could have extorted more from C couple without
complaint.
But C couple is too dramatic for the petty stuff. |
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D**0
发帖数: 2048 | 36 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
wallwallwall (wall) 于 (Tue Mar 1 11:47:24 2011, 美东) 提到:
我不知道两位来多久了，我记得90年代的留学生彼此帮忙修车（常常是一个下午一个下
午的忙活），最后也就捞一顿饭，就那样，谁都没意见。
50块钱放在15年前，能买半个月的伙食费。房租才百八十块，三四百的都是独立的
studio了。
我不知道自己有没有被人欺诈过修车，但我有个底线，修完了，瞅着这不挺easy的吗？
那是你后来都知道怎么回事了。 很多时候是大部分车主自己并不知道出问题的是哪块
了。我有个engine灯亮了半年，几家修车店都不敢说有idea,最后怎么搞定的？就花了
不到50块钱，是那个cooling的盖老化了，这还是开完高速冒烟了才找到本质性根源了
。 engine灯亮了那么长时间，原因有1000种可能性，mechanics heck之前,谁敢说是哪
个，就像这个coolant的问题，这要查起来，都浪费多少银子,每一道结果都会显示正常
的啊。那盖本身不到10块钱，换coolant... 阅读全帖 |
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n******h
发帖数: 2482 | 37 I don't blame them. I'm just pointing out the issue. Isn't that exactly the
problem? We Chinese are too shrewd to care for the big picture. All we care
is just our little family, little house and little backyard.
If that's indeed the case, We are damned and only God can help us. |
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t**e
发帖数: 1805 | 38 If the boy went to Colorado School of Mines, the family may be positioning
the kid to get into the oil industry. Could be one of the smartest moves
among all parents.
Most Chinese parents are shrewd and calculating so never underestimate them. |
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G****e
发帖数: 487 | 39 Regarding your point 7: Check out Thomas Sowell's work, such as Affirmative
Action Around the World.
Himself an African American, Thomas Sowell shrewdly pointed out that AA is "
one of the few policies that can be said to harm virtually every group in a
different way … Obviously, whites and Asians lose out when you have
preferential admission for black students or Hispanic students—but blacks
and Hispanics lose out because what typically happens is the students who
have all the credentials to su... 阅读全帖 |
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G****e
发帖数: 487 | 40 Regarding your point 7: Check out Thomas Sowell's work, such as Affirmative
Action Around the World.
Himself an African American, Thomas Sowell shrewdly pointed out that AA is "
one of the few policies that can be said to harm virtually every group in a
different way … Obviously, whites and Asians lose out when you have
preferential admission for black students or Hispanic students—but blacks
and Hispanics lose out because what typically happens is the students who
have all the credentials to su... 阅读全帖 |
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t****u
发帖数: 8614 | 41 主流媒体再次正面报道PK
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-ugly-campaign/Content
"
While Hayashi and Wieckowski have been beating each other to a pulp on the
campaign trail, a previously unknown Republican candidate from Santa Clara
County could be poised to sneak into the top two on June 3. Peter Kuo said
he almost quit the race in late December after receiving little attention
and almost no funding. However, Kuo's luck quickly changed when a Democratic
-backed constitutional amendment was introduc... 阅读全帖 |
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M**********r
发帖数: 1087 | 42 co-征文， 再再成英文 （FROM NND'S English version--> LEACOCK's Chinese
version --> English verision below). 情况越来越明朗化 ～～
This is what I am pleased to work in the past five years, such a dynamic
team and number.
First, over the past few years, support manager, to thank my manager Jon (
Jon honor, I have many of his
In my testing, for the first time as a manager) and Jim provide extended
practice. It has an interesting and mind
Opening break (I, as a humble career in software development) a
Second, it is my... 阅读全帖 |
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i*****g
发帖数: 6926 | 43 wk
传奇ID
co-征文， 再再成英文 （FROM NND'S English version--> LEACOCK's Chinese
version --> English verision below). 情况越来越明朗化 ～～
This is what I am pleased to work in the past five years, such a dynamic
team and number.
First, over the past few years, support manager, to thank my manager Jon (
Jon honor, I have many of his
In my testing, for the first time as a manager) and Jim provide extended
practice. It has an interesting and mind
Opening break (I, as a humble career in software development) a
Second,... 阅读全帖 |
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b********7
发帖数: 12906 | 44 it's going to be an outsider for sure. mark my word.
once SB steps down, all those with no true capabilities will be asked to
leave soon, including kevin turner, julie, this terry guy (who is this guy
again? lol), lisab, maybe satya. of course this is assuming the new CEO is a
shrewd guy.
,
SB |
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o******s
发帖数: 416 | 45 去年用季后赛用最稳定胜场最多的投手Andy P去死拼年轻好几岁的球队克星Cliff Lee
今年在Rotation拿不出手的情况下只让CC出场一次并且客场死拼年度最佳Verlander.
自己有个和绝大多数投手对阵有很大把握取胜的ace，却让他去死拼一场may go either
way的比赛。
一旦拼输，等着让“唯一稳定的就是不稳定”的AJ和first year rookie扭转乾坤？牛
逼的战术。
至于bullpen的调用就更无敌了，主场的比赛Garcia面对联盟avg leader打击手（并且
还从他手里打出homer）垒上两人人的时候就是不换，丢了2分，然后第九节换上Ayala
，再丢1分。追个P啊，直接投降了算了。说什么Garcia投的好，可人家对面的nearly
no hitter的投手在养鸡要起势的时候不是说换下就换下去就把优势保住了？Joe的理论
是留着以后用，so
Let's credit Shrewd Joe for thinking 100 innings into the future: April 2012. |
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A*****a
发帖数: 52743 | 46 Spurs are shrewd. They learned from last year's lessons. |
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l*****9
发帖数: 9501 | 47 Jeremy Lin's $25 million offer from Rockets should be no-brainer for rich
Knicks
By Marcus Thompson II m******[email protected]
Posted: 07/17/2012 11:36:55 AM PDT
July 17, 2012 6:38 PM GMTUpdated: 07/17/2012 11:36:55 AM PDT
The New York Knicks are crazy if they don't match the three-year, $25
million offer sheet Jeremy Lin has signed with the Houston Rockets.
I get that it's a pretty big number. I get that the poison pill third year -
- $14.8 million -- is going to b... 阅读全帖 |
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g**********y
发帖数: 14569 | 48 老何：感谢最大margin的一场blow-out, 让我得以平和的心态欣赏Sunday Night
Football而不用担心任何大分小分。感谢mind-blow WR pick week after week, 让我
们认识到垃圾场其实是金银岛。
Bison：感谢最shrewd的pick, 让我们认识到passing team的RB有时也是能用的，lousy team的WR有时也是work的，鸡窝里是可以飞出金凤凰的！
Bernie：感谢你持续地信任巨人的passing, 而我赛季初顽固地既不相信小白菜，也不
相信Nicks, 非常好的教训。鉴于偶稳定看错的眼力，明年起一定要花大钱挑选不看好
的球员。也感谢你告诉我们Vick的价值，可惜被我抓了，又扔了。
Blyuyu：感谢截胡芬利和阿呆这两包袱，不然偶的伤病队伍会更加气势磅礴。
Datang：感谢你让我偷走本赛季最接近的一场比赛，虽然无关紧要，至少欣慰一周。也
感谢你勇于实验RB-stud + RB-stud的组合，为我们证明此路危险。
Dango：感谢你为我们亲身示范：看上去可能亏的trade, 其实是可以work out的。止损... 阅读全帖 |
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g**********y
发帖数: 14569 | 49 Bison和Bernie的对决，一如A Foster和C Johnson的对决，一边是一个赛季的持续高潮
，一边是跌宕起伏的波澜壮阔，很不幸，关键的16周，CJ伏了，Bernie也只能认栽。
翻篇旧稿出来：
http://www.mitbbs.com/article0/Football/31328299_0.html
预测还算靠谱。很可惜，俺是纯正的“非专家”，从管理得一塌糊涂的球队就可知一二
，这篇预测只能归类于BigBlue的：停摆的钟一天还要对两次。
《回顾2010》
最佳management奖：bison和alderson并列。
Bison从waiver wire里补齐了WR: B Lloyd, Stevie Johnson, 抓住了银行家BJGE, 不
让他跟自己捣乱，很shrewd。
Alderson在伤痕累累的情况下，抓进了P Hillis, J Tamme, 一举扭转了不利的开局。
最佳draft奖：gochiefs
与众不同的strategy, 决定了在QB/WR/TE可以挑top player，如果不是Gates out of
season，Randy Moss生不... 阅读全帖 |
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u*********r
发帖数: 2735 | 50 among the people ahead of Tiger, Vijay makes me worry the most. He is the
kind of guy who can close a deal shrewdly. |
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