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...Unknown Africa I have bitten my tongue several times as your reporters, including Alex Perry and Vivienne Walt, glibly write about growing poverty in South Africa. This "conventional wisdom" is repeated in "Verbatim" [Oct. 20]. It simply isn't true. Measures of income generally show that poverty has fallen by as much as 20% over the past seven or eight years. One reason has been that employment rose considerably during the mid-2000s; another is that social-assistance programs now reach 12 million South Africans. It is true that inequality seems to have increased, but that is because...
...Harvard and the other Ivy League teams seeking that top spot. We can afford to mess up this weekend. They can’t.HARVARD (5-1, 2-1 Ivy) AT DARTMOUTH (0-6, 0-3 Ivy)It’s Saturday afternoon. You wake up in a strange, unknown place; and judging by the hardwood floor you slept on and the cockroach crawling into your nostril, you come to the vague conclusion that you’re in a River House. Your only memory of Halloween is that the hot gypsy you were dancing with all night went off with...
...little-known directors. And so it was in November of 1967 when, after being a film critic for only seven months, he went out on a limb to lavish praise on a first-time filmmaker by the name of Martin Scorsese - penning the first-ever writeup for this unknown New Yorker whose debut feature I Call First premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival...
...point. What I've done is made a very nice map of what it is that we understand and what it is that we don't understand. I've also made a decision-making protocol based on these two. There is a domain in which we can measure the unknown, provided the large deviation doesn't play a big role. What we have at this crisis is a conjunction of what I've feared the most - namely, a very large deviation, very large exposure and very high measurement error. We're talking about someone who goes into the jungle without...
...Tovmasyan, a management student at Faculty of Arts and Sciences, reported to the police that upon leaving Grendel’s Den, an unknown white male accosted him and asked him for a cigarette. The individual then punched Tovmasyan in the mouth and attempted to take...