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...conventional way to take the measure of an athlete is to concentrate on the numbers: Grand Slam or PGA titles, touchdown passes, new records. By that yardstick alone, a racehorse called Silent Witness was a winner many times over. Just retired, Silent Witness was unbeaten at his first 17 starts, eclipsing the 16-win streaks of past greats Ribot, Citation and Cigar. For three years running (2003 to 2005), the Paris-based International Federation of Horseracing Authorities ranked him the world's fastest sprinter. And over five seasons of racing, he amassed $8 million in prize money. Yet those numbers...
...yardstick by which the success of NATO's summit in the Latvian capital of Riga would be measured was always going to be Afghanistan. By engaging 32,000 troops there - its first full-scale military action outside of Europe - against a now resurgent Taliban, the Western alliance had posed itself a cruel test of solidarity in one of the world's most historically ungovernable patches. Last week it effectively failed the test...
...only person in the Western world who had never seen the movie, I had no yardstick to measure the new show by, or to rap it on the knuckles - which some opening-night critics did - for inexcusable infidelity to the original. And when I finally did catch up with the film on DVD, I surprised myself by preferring the show put on by producers Cameron Mackintosh and Disney's Tom Schumacher...
With more than 20 years of innovation and accomplishment serving as director of Harvard University Libraries (HUL), Sidney Verba ’53 has become the yardstick by which all librarians will be measured. Throughout his tenure, Verba has managed to keep Harvard ahead of the curve, never afraid to experiment with new technologies and inspirations to our evolving library system. From expanding our library’s connectivity in the Library Digital Initiative, to increasing storage via the Harvard Depository, to spearheading Harvard’s partnership with Google to digitize thousands of public-domain books, Verba has proven...
While Sekagya concedes that modern medicine is better at blood transfusions, rehydration and aligning compound fractures, he insists that traditional ways should not be dismissed simply because they are not understood. "A Western yardstick is the wrong yardstick to regulate traditional medicine," he says...