To combat the wealthy behemoths in the American League East, Billy Beane defied decades of player development strategies and the wisdom of seasoned scouts by allowing an assistant general manager with a Harvard degree in economics to enter into the inner sanctum of the draft room of the Oakland Athletics with a laptop.
If the constitution is passed, as now seems likely, parliament is allowed 240 days to draft enabling legislation before an election is held under the new rules which include a degreeof proportional representation, an independent election commission and other provisions making it harder to buy votes.