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...grievances playing on Fingleton when he wrote The Immortal Victor Trumper, a biography of his cricketing hero? He could wait no longer than its second paragraph to proclaim: "To me, Trumper remains the greatest batsman who ever lived. Bradman could be rightly advanced against him, but whereas Bradman ... operated upon bowlers like a butcher at the abattoirs ... Trumper was like a surgeon, dissecting everything that was offered against him." This analysis seems wilfully obtuse. Ultimately, batting is about numbers. And in Tests, Bradman averaged a full 60 runs more per innings than Fingleton...
...salaries, or maybe in between section and the third meeting of the day, it is often easy to let a lot of life’s nuance pass by unnoticed. On alternate Wednesdays, Marina S. Magloire ’11 will call attention to these moments and to expound upon their hilarity, their poignancy, and their meaning in the grander scheme of things...
...Crimson Staff is correct in its assessment that students ought to take personal precautions in unsafe times. This is partly achieved through simple steps such as walking with companions late at night or calling upon the complementary Harvard University Campus Escort Program (HUCEP) when alone in an isolated area. However, the Staff’s suggestion that this crime wave has come about primarily because of lack of attention by students to their personal safety ignores several key factors at play in this issue. First, the Staff glosses over the substantial role that the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) does...
...annual prediction released Wednesday. The list of 22 likely laureates includes professor of chemistry Charles M. Lieber, professor of genetics Gary Ruvkun of Harvard Medical School, and professor of economics Martin S. Feldstein. Thomson Reuters has generated lists of probable winners since 1989, using a methodology that predominately relies upon the researcher’s number of “high impact papers” and total citation counts, according to their Web site. In addition to this quantitative data, Thomson Reuters assesses whether the discoveries are worthy of special recognition, the extent of the researcher’s contribution...
...September, the plan was disrupted by real-world events. The financial crisis now knocking over banks and rocking the world economy forced McCain to shift gears. His big gambit - suspend the campaign and return to Washington - was undercut from two sides. First, upon arriving he found he had very little power to win votes for the deal or shape the negotiations. In fact, House Republicans voted against the initial package he supported by a margin of 2 to 1. Second, many viewed his decision to suspend his campaign as little more than yet another gimmick designed to grab press attention...