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... the group’s home page, she is almost always wearing one of a few unflattering expressions: chin up haughtily, angry and finger-pointing, bored and contemptuous, or laughing with her mouth wide open. In one photo, accompanying the aggregated story about billing taxpayers for her book tour, she seems to be rubbing her hands together as she leaves the stage. Among the Hillary Haters - The Atlantic

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Call her Hillary Birdman.

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...s, Minneapolis doesn’t benefit from a proximity to other rich cities and their intermingling of commerce. Instead, it’s so far from other major metros that it’s a singular magnet for regional talent. “There’s basically nothing between us and Seattle, so we’ve historically had all these smaller cities in Iowa, Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Montana that are our satellites,” Orfield told me. The Miracle of Minneapolis - The Atlantic

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The Major League Baseball television blackout map exemplifies this perfectly. There’s well over a 1,000-mile distance between Minneapolis and Seattle, and the population density in this area is absurdly low.

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Wow this map is everything you need to know about the United States basically

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... of the city unaffordable for middle-class families. And once the rich are ensconced, they typically resist the development of more housing, especially low-income housing, anywhere in their vicinity. In America’s 100 biggest metro areas, six in 10 homes are considered “within reach” of the middle class. But in the 20 richest cities, fewer than half are. The Miracle of Minneapolis - The Atlantic

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Explaining just what “within reach” for a middle-class family is crucial. Especially when the housing crisis was perpetuated in part by providing loans to families for houses that were anything but within reach, terminology like this is delicate post-recession.

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The dissolution of the American dream isn’t just a feeling; it is an empirical observation. In 2014, economists at Harvard and Berkeley published a landmark study examining which cities have the highest intergenerational mobility—that is, the best odds that a child born into a low-income household will move up into the middle class or beyond. Among large cities, the top of the list was crowded with rich coastal metropolises, ... The Miracle of Minneapolis - The Atlantic

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Interested readers can find the study here. As interesting as the positive results are those of the negative. Though they write that “[r]elative mobility is…highest in the Mountain West and rural Midwest”, we see six of the bottom eleven cities located in the latter part of the country.

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Translation: Let's run more.

As recently as a decade ago, it wasn't crazy to see a team average 88 points per game over the course of a season. Scoring and pace -- not efficiency -- have changed.

Virginia, 350th in adjusted tempo per Ken Pomeroy, is the poster child for that phenomena. The Cavs' milk-every-second-of-the-shot-clock offense and pack-line defense do everything to make Bennett's program a shrewd chessmaster who employs calculated maneuvers in grind-it-out contests his ...

Is Virginia's style bad for the game? - College Basketball Nation Blog - ESPN

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Referring back to the late-game run that plagued Virginia against Duke, this came as a result of the Blue Devils having a nearly ten-point gap in adjusted tempo over the Cavaliers.

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...ng, however, for college basketball's mass appeal.

At halftime of Monday's game, Virginia held a 25-15 lead over Pitt. The per-possession aficionados will gush over Virginia's overall effectiveness. But the casual fan is responsible for the explosion of popularity that encompasses the sport in March. That casual fan doesn't care about per-possession numbers and efficiency.

That casual fan cares about entertainment. There's nothing entertaining about a 25-15 half of basketball. It's even difficult for the game's true supporters to digest.

Virginia, however, is not alon...

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The casual fan cares about the money they put on it, if they fall into the gambling sector (as an increasing majority do). For those with something tangible to lose on these games, they care not about how the end result occurs. They just want it to be in their favor.

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It happened again Monday night. And injured wing Justin Anderson's absence wasn't the issue. He never really helped with this.

Virginia won ugly.

The second-ranked Cavaliers topped Pitt 61-49. That was not unexpected. Neither was the not-made-for-TV sluggishness that has helped Tony Bennett become the national coach of the year frontrunner, put his team at the top of the ACC and compete for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.

But what if Virginia as a 1-se...

Is Virginia's style bad for the game? - College Basketball Nation Blog - ESPN

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During the Pitt-Virginia game, the Cavaliers held the Panthers without a score for three stretches of five minutes or greater, bringing their season total at that point to 23. What was never noted during analyses of this game is how absurd the margin of victory was for such a lopsided statistic. For every minute Pitt was held without a point during those stretches, Virginia still only won by 12.

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Meanwhile, here is the Lorne Michaels-backed show I wish had lasted for 40 years, or at least more years than it did: the Toronto-based Kids in the Hall. For these reasons. Lorne Michaels's Other Show - The Atlantic

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The legacy of KITH lives on in hip-hop group KIdz in the Hall, whose name pays homage to the show.

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Marginality has long been a hallmark of the real. Almost 50 years ago, the French literary critic Roland Barthes noted that “every narrative, at least every Western narrative of the ordinary sort nowadays, possesses a certain number” of seemingly “u... Han Solo Shot First - The Atlantic

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For the trained eye, it’s crucial to distinguish what is meant by “the real”. To some philosophers, most notably Slavoj Žižek, “Real” with a capital “R” is possible in something that we see as fiction. That is, despite our knowledge of the events taking place in Star Wars as fiction, it still contains myriad symbolic significance to things we designate as reality in our own lives.

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Time bends on the outer rim of the Wikiverse. Visit the Luke Skywalker entry on Wikipedia, and you’ll find his adventures described in the present tense, a tacit acknowledgment that his story is a fictional one. Seek out the biographies of lesser Star Wars characters like Zax the Hutt or D... Han Solo Shot First - The Atlantic

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Ironic in their asking you to do so without providing the proper link to make visiting easier.

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