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Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
But the cost/benefit calculus is extremely different. If the costs of a proposal outweight the benefits then it's a bad proposal even if it produces some good. I disagree that the costs of the health care reform outweigh the benefits. And thankfully a lot of well-respected economists, public health scholars, doctors, and the majority of the American public disagree with you as well. And that'sby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Only a "home run" offer takes Donahue away - 14 years ago
billhoward mnagowski MetaEzra has confirmed that Donahue will be coaching for Penn next year: Which is the worse possibility: MetaEzra never went through a Cornell writing course ... or he did? Ouch. Seriously? As opposed to the convoluted sentence you used to open this thread?by mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
Kyle Rose Liability breaks down when the losses become large enough, even if you can figure out who was to blame. I don't understand this at all: please explain. Because once liabilities become big enough, the company/interest/person can declare bankruptcy/fold/commit suicide and suddenly they are no longer liable? What I find crazy in the private fire company discussion is just how poor thby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Only a "home run" offer takes Donahue away - 14 years ago
MetaEzra has confirmed that Donahue will be coaching for Penn next year:by mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
So... uh... does anybody care about the Penn basketball team's ethical lapse in judgment when they refused to vacate their "win" against Brown this season?by mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
KeithKI think there probably is no point in further discussion when it comes to Marx. Maybe he did have a few insights - I haven't read his works. So there you go. Al was right.by mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
KeithK Looking at the chart there hasn't been all that much variation in Top 1% income share through the years. There was plenty of inequality in the 60s by this measure. I'd be real hesitant to say that the relative decline in this one metric was the reason (or an especially big reason) for the growth in that time period. I would think that a doubling in the amount of aggregate income "aby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
Jim Hyla KeithK Trotsky Jim HylaI expect to get paid more than the garbage pick-up manI don't. You literally could not pay me enough to be a garbage man, a soldier, or a middle school teacher. That's where I'd pour money for fear that the talent would leave. And all three jobs are a lot more important than anything with executive severance. Funny thing how the market works. I wouldn't want toby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Odds that Donahue stays? - 14 years ago
srg1 How does the issue that Donahue may have lost other job opportunities while he was coaching Cornell to the Sweet 16 factor into this? Will Donahue get a raise from Cornell if he stays? Can Cornell make more money by charging students for tickets to basketball and not using the money from the student activity fee towards basketball? 10 home games * 1,000 students per game * $5 additionalby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
Inequality in income and wealth is a good thing. Gradients drive change, encourage innovation. I suppose that's why the period associated with the highest rate of equality in the post-war era, the 1960s, are associated with the highest rates of economic growth? I have nothing economically wrong with a moderate level of inequality, provided there's a high level of social mobility and a stby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
There's no "immorality" associated with making an honest living. You believe that Wall Street has been 'honest' over the last decade?by mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
BCrespi Jim Hyla billhoward Bill Gates when he was younger blew off questions about his philanthropy by saying he would get to that in a much bigger way later. But the man kept his promise. Nothing wrong with working hard, making money, and then easing out early to do good works. You can certainly argue about whether it was worth all the money it cost, but at least Gates produced something of valby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: CU & ECAC Tourney on TV - 14 years ago
ugarte I didn't get ESPNU in time. Seems like I should have no regrets (except paying for the sports pack). There was a pretty amusing interview with Scrivens about how the team stole his passport.by mnagowski - Hockey
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
To be fair to the student-athletes, not all of them end up on Wall Street, and many non-student athletes (a lot of whom make a lot less significant contributions to the Cornell community) end up on Wall Street as well. A fair number of them will go on to be doctors, lawyers, researchers, farmers, or entrepreneurs. I know Adam Gore went back to help manage his family farm after graduating last yeaby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Odds that Donahue stays? - 14 years ago
laxman The report by Frank is another self serving piece by an academic who would prefer that all sports were abolished. I don't think the sports boom at major state Universities in this nation would be occurring if there wasn't money in those fields! Yeah, and there was tons of money in subprime mortgages as well. Frank clearly states that there are lots of non-pecuniary benefits to inter-cby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: UHN Pregame Thread (RIT and Denver too) - 14 years ago
Kyle Rose It's always amusing to watch the top seed lose to the bottom seed. I think there needs to be a caveat somewhere in there. Is it always?by mnagowski - Hockey
Re: 3/26 viewing parties - BUFFALO - 14 years ago
In Buffalo folks will be congregating at the Creekview in Williamsville, as per our usual over the last two weeks.by mnagowski - Hockey
Re: Odds that Donahue stays? - 14 years ago
Jacob '06 Roy 82 mnagowski Roy 82 Here is a dumb question: Why doesn't Cornell just offer Donahue a bigger salary next season? The indirect financial benefit to Cornell by having a successful BBall program would more than make up for the cost. I have no doubt that Cornell will try to increase his salary to retain him. But it's not clear to me that there's a huge financial benefit. Are youby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Basketball East Regional Roll Call - 14 years ago
phillysportsfan Is there really no one willing to car pool from Ithaca to Syracuse for the game tomorrow, I am willing to pay $50? Did you try craigslist? But they also dropped something like a dozen bodies last year to make budget and alumni affairs wasn't overstaffed vs. its peers. Stanford was reported to have cut more AA jobs in its rightsizing than Cornell has, total, in alumni affairs.by mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: UNH Pregame Thread (RIT and Denver too) - 14 years ago
Um, why does everybody misspell UNH?by mnagowski - Hockey
Re: Albany Roll Call II: Electric Boogaloo (NCAA Regionals) - 14 years ago
munchkin Is anyone driving from Boston (or the surrounding area) on Saturday if the team wins on Friday? I will go, I'd just rather not have to shell out for a Zip Car ($$$ for 24 hours). The Boston-Albany bus is pretty decent. And the Albany bus station is like three blocks from the arena. Just don't go for a layover in Springfield.by mnagowski - Hockey
Re: Odds that Donahue stays? - 14 years ago
ugarte mnagowski Roy 82 Here is a dumb question: Why doesn't Cornell just offer Donahue a bigger salary next season? The indirect financial benefit to Cornell by having a successful BBall program would more than make up for the cost. I have no doubt that Cornell will try to increase his salary to retain him. But it's not clear to me that there's a huge financial benefit. Are you increasinby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Odds that Donahue stays? - 14 years ago
Roy 82 Here is a dumb question: Why doesn't Cornell just offer Donahue a bigger salary next season? The indirect financial benefit to Cornell by having a successful BBall program would more than make up for the cost. I have no doubt that Cornell will try to increase his salary to retain him. But it's not clear to me that there's a huge financial benefit. Are you increasing your annual givby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Why the hate/dislike of Cornell? - 14 years ago
Give My Regards Trotsky If only there was a way they could stop the pain of having to listen to us chant winning team losing team. Which reminds me... the first time Cornell and Union met in an ECAC game, back in January '92 at Union, the Big Red swamped 'em by something like 8-1, and the Cornell fans didn't do "winning team, losing team." Oh no, no, they (all right, all right, WE) dby mnagowski - Hockey
Re: All around excellence - 14 years ago
Al DeFlorio tretiak This is more a task for someone in the Cornell athletics/admissions department, but shouldn't someone make a video to celebrate this weekend? No one has come up with any other recent stretches of athletic domination. Start with clips from the men's basketball clinching the Ivy League title at Brown, m/w hockey beating Harvard and continue with all the success last weekend? Theby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Dream-Crushing, Soul-Devouring Juggernaut Shirts - 14 years ago
Kyle Rose kaelistus Kinda off topic. But the leaning bear is so much more soul-devouring than the Huggy bear. I actually really like Popeye Bear and Demon Bear even more than Smug Bear. Needless to say, they are all better than Huggy Bear. Speaking of all these bears, does the University even use the leaning bear as a symbol any more?by mnagowski - Hockey
Re: Dream-Crushing, Soul-Devouring Juggernaut Shirts - 14 years ago
The entire approval process took less than 2.5 hours for the administration to sign on with it. Take that, Big Red Tape!by mnagowski - Hockey
Re: All around excellence - 14 years ago
ugarte mnagowski Unbelievable Cornell weekend! As for the latest vote in congress, that is another story. Thanks for raining on my parade Pelosi!!! I vehemently disagree with you. You try waking up one day to realize that something in your body has gone horribly wrong and facing the prospect that if you lose your job you can kiss any semblance of a "normal" life goodbye. Or maybeby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: All around excellence - 14 years ago
Unbelievable Cornell weekend! As for the latest vote in congress, that is another story. Thanks for raining on my parade Pelosi!!! I vehemently disagree with you. You try waking up one day to realize that something in your body has gone horribly wrong and facing the prospect that if you lose your job you can kiss any semblance of a "normal" life goodbye. Or maybe your kids couldby mnagowski - Other Sports
Re: Cornell 3 Mercyhurst 2 final OT - 14 years ago
Jacob 03 mnagowski WOW.... this is just sinking in but doesn't this means that our women's hockey team could win the first Cornell NCAA championship for any sport in.... how many years? Anyone know? They really should get more coverage in the Sun because this is really a terrific season for these girls. The Sun is reporting that this is the first time a Cornell women's team will ever compete fby mnagowski - Other Sports