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...DIED. Frederick Mosteller, 89, preeminent statistician and founding chairman of Harvard University's statistics department who popularized the application of statistical data to politics and sports; in Falls Church, Virginia. Mosteller first showed his knack for laws of probability as a teenager, while working on a road crew that played poker during rain delays. In 1952, after mulling over the St. Louis Cardinals' 1946 World Series win over the Boston Red Sox, he published the first known academic paper on baseball statistics. A stronger team on paper would often lose to a weaker team, he proved, simply because of chance...
...DIED. Frederick Mosteller, 89, pre-eminent statistician and founding chairman of Harvard University's statistics department who popularized the application of statistical data to fields from politics to sports; in Falls Church, Va. Mosteller first showed his knack for laws of probability as a teenager, while working on a road crew that played poker during rain delays. In 1952, after mulling over the St. Louis Cardinals' 1946 World Series win over the Boston Red Sox, he published the first known academic paper on baseball statistics. A stronger team on paper would often lose to a weaker team, he proved, simply...
...very, very young, I just knew that that was something I wanted to do," she says. "Before I could read, my mother will tell stories of how I would just pester her constantly to read to me." When she was in college at Colgate, Edwards studied with Frederick Busch, who became a mentor. After earning her MFA in fiction and an MA in theoretical linguistics, both from the University of Iowa, she and her husband spent five years teaching English in Southeast Asia - Malaysia, Japan, and Cambodia. "It was a time of great learning and great growth and great excitement...
...that former Tanzanian Prime Minister Frederick Sumaye no longer has parliamentary sessions to attend, he’s found a new activity to keep him occupied—homework...
...closely—particularly parts suggesting that Summers shielded his close friend Andrei Shleifer ’82, an economist implicated in the government lawsuit, from disciplinary action.“The story, if true, is damning to Harvard,” according to McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering Frederick H. Abernathy.Nearly five decades after McClintick launched his journalistic career at Harvard radio WHRB’s then-headquarters in the Dudley House basement, his reporting sent waves across Harvard Yard.‘PAST PRESENT FUTURE’As a freshman, McClintick threw himself into WHRB?...