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Rosen also says Winthrop’s master’s kitchen will give him the chance to exercise one of his lesser known talents...
...Nanny Case” in which the au pair Louise Woodward was accused of violently shaking a Newton family’s baby to death. The jury found Woodward guilty of second-degree murder—but Zobel overturned the verdict, finding the British au pair guilty of the lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter. Woodward went free with time served...
...greater danger, however, may not be from the risks themselves, but from our failure to accurately identify which ones are really dangerous and which ones aren’t. Risk misperception—too much fear of lesser bogeymen and not enough fear of the bigger ones—leads to dangerous choices both by individuals and society...
...societal level, when we demand government protection from the risks we’re all afraid of—risks that hit our emotional hot buttons even though they may not necessarily be the ones that threaten us the most—time and money devoted to these lesser risks aren’t available to protect us from the bigger ones, and some of the people left exposed to those big ones...
...best stalling act, biding time for a comeback that, unfortunately for Harvard, never came. He allowed just one hit in his stint—a leadoff chopper through the left side by Princeton’s Jon Miller off a 2-2 curve. It was easily one of lesser abuses Miller (5-for-11, 3 RBI) inflicted on Crimson pitching this weekend and it proved altogether harmless once Salsgiver baited Princeton’s next batter, Ryan Eldridge, into a 4-6-3 double-play...