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...DIED. MITSURU HANADA, 55, slight but skillful grappler hailed as the "Prince of Sumo" for his courageous style and good looks; from oral cancer; in Tokyo. A trim 100 kg, Hanada?who fought as Ozeki Takanohana I?followed his grand-champion elder brother Wakanohana I into the dohyo (ring), reaching the sport's ?lite division at age 18 and attracting a spirited fan base over his 16-year career. After retiring in 1981, Hanada became director of the Japan Sumo Association; he is the father of two grand champions of the 1990s, Wakanohana III and Takanohana...
Well, no. But Levitt does expose a coterie of cheaters, from Chicago public school teachers to Sumo wrestlers to millions of tax filers...
It’s not only teachers that cheat. Turns out that Sumo wrestlers try to game the system as well. You see, a Sumo wrestling tournament involves 15 bouts, and a wrestler must win a majority to avoid dropping in the rankings. It doesn’t materially affect him whether he wins 14 matches or eight—just that he emerges with a better-than-even winning percentage. Knowing this, Levitt looked at the last matches in tournaments—when a wrestler with a 13-1 record going into the final round was matched with...
...white collar crime”—varies over holidays (stealing increases dramatically over Christmas and decreases on the 4th of July) and during times of national crisis (the stealing rate dropped after 9/11 and has remained at a constant level since). Even though teachers and Sumo wrestlers cheat sometimes, 89 percent of bagel-eaters left a buck behind...
Levitt himself is a heavyweight—of Sumo-sized proportions—in the world of economics. A one-time resident of Wigglesworth H-entry, he excelled academically as an undergrad here, making Phi Beta Kappa his senior year. In 2003, he won the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to the top American economist under age 40. Past winners include current Harvard faculty members Andrei Shleifer ’82, Martin S. Feldstein ’61, Dale W. Jorgenson, and Lawrence H. Summers...