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...company has put up posters around campus that feature an attractive woman in a tight white tank top holding a pair of Intimo briefs on her index finger. Above her are the words: “I am looking for the hottest man alive...
...illustrate how out of touch the voters in these two polls are, let’s surf on over to I-AA.org, a site which has compiled a rating formula know as the Gridiron Power Index (GPI). The GPI is the cheap, generic knockoff of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) formula, as it uses the rankings from eight computers and three human polls—the two mentioned above and the one from AnyGivenSaturday.com, which currently has Harvard sitting 24th...
...Sagarin ranking that the GPI actually uses places Harvard 16th—the same ranking the Crimson received in the Matthews index. Throw in a 15th and an 18th in the final two computer indexes, and it’s pretty clear that the average ranking (12.38) spit out by one’s trusty IBM lifts the Crimson well out of the dubious Other’s Receiving Votes column...
...like rewarding outstanding accomplishments, so while everyone drools over next week’s I-AA rankings, I’ll be paying my respects to the one index that is excellent at what it does. Who knows, maybe if Harvard drills Northeastern this weekend, those human polls might begin to do the same...
...still shamefully laugh at a 1972 cartoon in which a Chinese warrior says, "That banquet was most delicious, and yet now, somehow, once again I feel the pang of hunger." It's that every week Mankoff has to reject great submissions because the research department sends him typed index cards enumerating similar jokes made in New Yorker cartoons over the past 79 years. Seriously, people, let go of the deserted island...