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...true that the Red Sox enter the playoffs with more walks and a higher OPS than the Cubs. But since pitchers don't hit in the American League, those numbers tend to skew higher in the junior circuit. Bottom line: if the Cubs can stay patient and pound like they've done all summer, it'll be a fun fall on the North Side...
...have a lot of the same interests on paper, but if you talk to our friends or family, they’ll tell you that we have very distinct personalities. What begets what, I don’t know. I tend to be a little bit more artistic and creative. We take different approaches to a lot of things and have different views that are probably reflected in our handedness...
...series of surprising, bold and, to some, reckless tactical moves designed to keep his opponent on the ropes. Through depicting Obama as Paris Hilton, selecting the little-known governor of Alaska as his running mate, manufacturing the lipstick-on-a-pig contretemps and, most recently, "suspending" his campaign to tend to the financial crisis, McCain has consistently garnered headlines and forced his opponent to respond...
...trying to disparage journalists, my brother least of all, by arguing that they make mistakes. Nor was I asserting the superior accuracy of historians. I was arguing for the importance of reading all texts critically, a point worth stressing in this new information age, when readers tend to think that they have access to unmediated factual knowledge by consulting their computers. ROBERT C. DARNTON ‘60 Cambridge, Mass. September 19, 2008 The writer is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library...
...other measures imply a greater influx of testosterone during puberty, according to Apicella. “This financial risk taking in men is the modern equivalent of male-to-male combat,” said Apicella, who found in a previous study that men with lower voices tend to father more children than men with higher voices. Apicella’s co-author, Anna S. J. Dreber, a visiting researcher from the Stockholm School of Economics, noted that “in an evolutionary sense, it makes sense that women are more risk averse” than...