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...predicts how many runs a lineup of nine of the same player would score in a game, earned him a column focusing on the statistic and its new record-holder, Barry Bonds (who happens to be fourth up in the bottom of the first). The formula has won him acclaim from academic colleagues—Morris gave a talk to the American Statistical Association on Sept. 25 to discuss the formula—as well as sabermetricians, people who dedicate their lives to the analysis and improvement of baseball statistics...
Kentridge went on to make seven more films in the Soho Eckstein series, each winning increasing international acclaim. In 1997, his work was featured in “Documenta X,” a cutting-edge art show in Kassel, Germany, which launched him into the spotlight. In 1998, filmmaker Reinhard Wulf and art historian Maria Anna Tappeiner filmed Drawing the Passing, a documentary on Kentridge’s creation of Stereoscope, the eighth film in the Soho Eckstein series. This documentary helped bring his work to wider audiences. Stereoscope premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York...
DIED. RICHARD HARRIS, 72, hell-raising Irish actor; of Hodgkin's disease; in London. He first won acclaim for his starring role as a rugby player in This Sporting Life (1963) and later starred in such films as Camelot and A Man Called Horse. A new generation knew him as the kindly wizard Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, a role he reprises in next month's sequel...
...Shakespeare and Kant are also featured. The implicit logic behind Columbia’s list of mandatory texts is that some works are especially worthy of study, either for aesthetic or historical reasons. That said, Columbia has been willing to adapt its curriculum over time and, to popular acclaim, recently added the Koran to reflect the increasingly multicultural society in which the institution found itself. And, lest anyone decry the Columbia system as close-minded, it should be noted that, in addition to the Euro-centric humanities requirements, students there must take two semesters of classes that examine non-Western...
Smart, bold and political, Sleater-Kinney emerged from the Pacific Northwest with roots in riot grrrl, a movement of mostly youthful feminist and queer women who defied the sexist art and music establishments to revitalize punk rock. Despite widespread acclaim and a passionate fan base, the band has remained stubbornly independent and has little of the mainstream name recognition of those who have been crowned rock’s new hope...