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...past 100 years, U.S. courts have crafted their answers to these questions. Forensic economists testify on the value of a life every day. They can even tell you the average valuation of an injured knee (about $200,000). But until now, the public at large has not had to reckon with the process and its imperfections. Until the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 created a small city's worth of grieving families and the government established an unprecedented fund to compensate them, the mathematics of loss was a little-known science. Now the process is on garish display...
...rules don't reckon with this, and they need to. The school should at least ensure it makes and enforces rules that are fair across the great gender divide...
McCartney's Driving Rain (Capitol) finds the sunniest of the Beatles in an inspired funk. The first track, Lonely Road, uses hoarse vocals and rugged Neil Young-style electric guitar (rugged? Paul?) to reckon with the departure of a loved one, surely McCartney's wife and much-maligned musical collaborator, Linda, who died in 1998. McCartney shows himself to be as adept at conjuring up angst as any obscure pack of teenagers in a garage. The hurt in his voice turns the innocuous lines "I hear your music and it's driving me wild/Familiar rhythms in a different style" into...
With a better beginning, Cornell could be a team to reckon with for the league title. The Big Red will first come to Harvard...
...from the Harvard Club of New York. With former co-captains Daniel Ezra ’98—national champion and three-time finalist—and Tim Wyant ’00 playing on the same squad, their level of professional competition will be a force to reckon with...