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Editor’s note: Last spring, Frank Herrmann, a pitching prospect in the Cleveland Indians organization and former Harvard right-handed starter, wrote a weekly column for The Crimson. This is his 2006 fall debut.An old adage says, “It ain’t cheating if you don’t get caught.” Well, Detroit Tigers pitcher Kenny Rogers got caught and it was on baseball’s biggest stage. The latest scandal surrounding America’s pasttime emerged during the second game of the World Series on Sunday night when Rogers...
...give back to the community he came from. You may think comparing Harvard students to hard-knock cases from Brooklyn is like comparing apples and oranges, but many members of Harvard’s artistic elite face the same choice as the late Biggie Smalls. Facing the prospect of scraping by on an artist’s salary, non-profit or arts-related consulting can be an attractive—if unconventional—middle ground. THE HAPPY MEDIUM So far this year, 42 percent of all job applicants going through the Office of Career Services (OCS) at Harvard have...
With the sportsmanship and class required of football players, I’m not entirely sure that is the way to go. Penalties should not be called simply based on the prospect of a problem, and referees should not let other games influence their calls...
...Skilling's sentencing, meanwhile, brought some cause for celebration for Enron victims, and not just because of the prospect of him behind bars for a long, long time. A criminal forfeiture and restitution agreement was announced the same day - about $45 million will be dispersed by U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon to victims in pending civil lawsuits. Judge Sim Lake originally ordered a $5 million fine to be paid to the U.S. Government, but then changed his mind. "No fine - it will all go to the victims," he said. Seattle attorney Lynn Sarko, who represents employees in Enron retirement fund...
...that there are disabling truths, messy realities that positively stymie adequate response unless their particulars are reduced to deceptive simplicities. Every sentient human being knows this from daily experience ... Constantly hearing the truth, the cold, hard, brutal unsparing truth, from spouses, relatives, friends and colleagues is not a pleasant prospect. 'Human kind,' as T.S. Eliot wrote, 'cannot bear very much reality.' TRUTH TELLING MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO COEXIST; A LITTLE LYING MAKES SUCH SOCIETY TOLERABLE. At what point does 'a little' become 'too much'? The nervous boy who cried 'Wolf!' in the admonitory tale told...