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...bottom of the second, the Giants threaten a big inning. Singles by J.T. Snow and David Bell put men on first and second, and pitcher Russ Ortiz is safe at first after bunting the runners over. It’s bases loaded, none out, and impossible to tear one’s eyes away from the television—unless you’re Carl Morris, who is tracking the inning’s evolution on his expected-runs table. Only after announcing that the Giants should score 2.4 runs in this inning does Morris pick up his head...
...cost them 0.8 runs,” he says. “And he lowered the probability of their scoring at least one run from .89 to two-thirds.” As Rich Aurilia comes up, Bonds lurks in the hole. Aurilia flies to center, driving in Bell, and second baseman Jeff Kent follows up the sacrifice with a single, loading the bases with two out for the man who put RPG on the map. With the bases loaded, it doesn’t take a degree in statistics to know the Cardinals have to pitch to Bonds...
Kentridge is an unusually versatile artist, with a background ranging from opera to politics. He was born into a Jewish family in Johannesburg in 1955. In an interview with writer bell hooks in the September 1998 issue of Interview magazine, he noted that “a central irony exists for South African Jews. To be Jewish was to be other…But in the present, we are absolutely not part of those most oppressed.” Kentridge’s fascination with otherness and the divisions within South African society led him to earn...
...Staff writer Martin S. Bell can be reached at msbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...rolled out our swags beneath the shade of a coolibah tree and watched and waited, ravenous, while the billy boiled. This was a truly Waltzing Matilda moment except for one seemingly un-Australian note?the chime of a camel bell and the sight of its wearer extending a long, furry neck to prune the top of an acacia bush not far from our bedrolls...