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Harvard ended those thoughts quickly. Freshman Mandy Wills reached second base on an infield single and a throwing error with two outs, and freshman Jenny Franzese tomahawked a 210-foot shot off the centerfield fence for a double to score Wills and tie the game...
...what's the lesson to be learned? According to McNamara, "we made an error not of values and intentions but of judgement and capabilities." But this is becoming confusing. If our "judgement and capabilities" are proved wrong, don't we have to doubt the "values and intentions...
...RELATE TO YOUR ARTICLE ON HUMAN error in hospitals, especially the incident concerning overdoses of medication [Medicine, April 3]. Five years ago, while waking up after minor surgery to overcome infertility, I received three times the normal dosage of an anti-nausea drug to counteract side effects of the anesthetic. No one considered my size, which is much smaller than the average adult. I experienced a horrific reaction. Luckily, the effect was not lethal, as it was in the case of cancer patient Betsy Lehman; but I was traumatized to the point of avoiding further surgery, which was recommended. That...
...WITHOUT MUSIC, LIFE would be an error," Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote. The influential German philosopher (1844-1900) had an abiding, often passionate interest in music and wrote celebrated treatises both for and against the work of Wagner. Yet only a few specialists know that Nietzsche composed music himself...
...Left may be dying in the Far East, but in the Cambridge Gulag it is alive and well. (The Lerner-West public forum is, in fact, organized by the Democratic Socialists of America at Harvard Divinity School.) Socialism itself is the primary error in judgment of both Lerner and West. Because of their lack of faith in our capitalist republic, they find it necessary to reconstruct the entire nation in order to defeat racism and anti-Semitism...