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...Moneyball The Red Sox, with their two world titles in four years, have set the postseason model. A team that is patient and hits for power - the Moneyball way originally preached by Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane and perfected by the Sox - prevails. These Cubbies fit that mold. Chicago led the National League in both walks and that sacrosanct benchmark for the stat heads, on-base percentage plus slugging...
...culture and the bust. Men with higher testosterone levels are more likely to opt for high-risk investments, according to a study by a Harvard anthropologist and a visiting economist. The researchers gave 98 male Harvard undergraduates $250 and asked them to invest the money as they saw fit. If participants made a successful investment—as determined by the flip of a coin—they were rewarded with two-and-a-half times the amount invested. If the “investment” failed, the participant lost his money. The team hoped to further analyze...
...class. But we all know this won’t last. As a naïve freshman in the fall of 2006, I was initially fooled by the fashionable first few weeks. I skipped through the Yard loving life—what a perfect place to be! I fit right in here. I was excited to be part of this smart, well-dressed, and all-around well put together society. I had chosen the right institution after all.Little did I know what lay ahead in the coming weeks. Cue the horror music. I truly felt like...
...tackles for loss in the 2006 campaign, the Elizabethtown, N.C. natives bring a lot to the Crimson front line. Desmond, the elder of the two, stands at 6’5”, 280 pounds, while Brenton, at 6’3”, 235 pounds, is hardly fit to bear the title “little brother.” The two played together at East Bladen in Elizabethtown and have always enjoyed the joys and pressures of playing with a sibling. “You always know that you have your brother there, someone you can always relate...
...shuttle and wheel into Blodgett Pool. But Becca V. Agoglia, Kolbe’s swim coach for her junior and senior years at Harvard, said, “I never heard her complain.” “I wasn’t sure how I would fit in...I was pretty afraid,” Kolbe said of her arrival at Harvard. “I didn’t know how [the coach] would react to having a disabled swimmer on the team.” Agoglia described Kolbe’s training regimen—which...