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...ghosts that haunt Shea Stadium do not emerge from opponents of Octobers past, but rather from brash investments that didn’t exactly work out. If you listen carefully and try to block out the din of airplanes flying overhead from LaGuardia Airport, you can make out the whispers of Mo Vaughn, Roberto Alomar, Shawn Estes, Pedro Astacio and Jeromy Burnitz, laughing as they count their money...
With power comes responsibility: foremost, a responsibility to listen to people, even critics. Furthermore, as Harvard’s public face, the president is obligated to put the University before personal pride. We have seen that acting alone, Summers has demonstrated his capacity to sully relationships between individuals or entire constituencies and the University. Fortunately, he also has the ability to build them. Let’s hope he goes with Option B, because the world—not just Harvard—is watching...
With power comes responsibility: foremost, a responsibility to listen to people, even critics. Furthermore, as Harvard’s public face, the president is obligated to put the University before personal pride. We have seen that acting alone, Summers has demonstrated his capacity to sully relationships between individuals or entire constituencies and the University. Fortunately, he also has the ability to build them. Let’s hope he goes with Option B, because the world—not just Harvard—is watching...
...carb foods, but I bet they contain more sodium to make up for a lack of taste. Nowadays everybody is expected to just take a prescription medication to solve blood-pressure problems. I want to combat hypertension through diet and exercise, not by taking pills. Listen up, marketers: Low carb is out; no salt is in! Laurel Gruber Avon Lake, Ohio, U.S. Instead of looking to drug companies to fix the problem, maybe we should explore the reasons behind the rise in hypertension. Yes, diet and exercise have always been important to achieving a healthy lifestyle. But never before have...
...problems is that if you tell untrained people, 'Listen?there's a tsunami coming,' half of them go down to the beach to see what a tsunami looks like." PHIL MCFADDEN, chief scientist at Geoscience Australia, an agency that monitors earthquakes, on the difficulties of issuing tsunami warnings in Indian Ocean countries...