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...what he would have called a bum ticker, leaving behind the manuscript of a novel called Pound for Pound (Ecco; 366 pages). Under the circumstances, it's a pleasure to say that Pound for Pound is not a rough, unfinished, posthumous collection of jottings, nor was Rope Burns a fluke. Pound for Pound is that most rare and absorbing of pleasures, a great boxing novel...
...thought, ‘What was I thinking? They can’t all be bad.’”In a move she calls the “nuttiest thing,” she applied to the Business School. She considers her acceptance a fluke, but she ended up a Baker Scholar and landing a job at a consulting firm after graduation.She attributes her success to her ability to write articulately and ask questions imperturbably. Her tenure at the Associated Press also gave her the management experience that other students lacked, she says...
Although Johnson thinks his case was a "rare aberrant fluke," that's not exactly true. More than 1 in 3 doctors in a 2002 survey by the Harvard School of Public Health reported errors in their own or a family member's medical care. Dr. Robert Wachter, chief of the medical service at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, who co-wrote last year's best seller Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes, says he has seen it all: patients who had the wrong leg amputated, were given the wrong (and deadly...
...went crazy. My fellow prefrosh and I frantically wrote on each others walls, making plans to “definitely meet up” come September. Within a month or so, I had amassed a Harvard friends list in the hundreds. Then by some fluke, I found myself in a string of Facebook message conversations with one upperclassman. He warned me against having a thousand Facebook friends before even arriving at college and directed me to the Facebook group “Holy Shit, the Class of 2009 Should Perform a David Koresh-style Mass Suicide.” These...
...weekends ago, the Harvard men’s volleyball team shocked the undefeated league leader. On Saturday, the Crimson was out to prove that the win wasn’t a fluke. Harvard found another gear in the final ten points of its games, using its confidence from the previous weekend’s victory to pull off a 3-1 victory (31-29, 30-28, 27-30, 34-32) over East Stroudsburg (ESU) on Saturday afternoon at the Malkin Athletic Center. The win was the Crimson’s second in eight days over the Warriors...