Posted by: James Pet
Article: Sports | "NL MVP race lacks a clear frontrunner" (Sept. 19)
Fielder as a candidate? What a joke. He leads the league in home runs (and subsequently slugging percentage) and that is it. He is batting below .300 which should be a prerequisite for an MVP.
I agree that [Colorado Rockies left fielder Matt]Holliday is the clear favorite even if he isn't on a playoff team. Just look at the numbers!
In the two days following this article's publication, he has taken over the batting title with a .340 average, hit three home runs to bring his total to 35, and had six RBI to bring his total to a league-leading 128. He is second in slugging percentage to Fielder at .612 (only three players are above .570), and has a OPS over 1.0!!
Posted by: Sue Menino
Article: Arts | "'K-ville' comes too late to make a point" (Sept. 19)
Old wounds? Untimely? Hardly. This show is set in present day New Orleans, not 2005. K-ville has its problems, to be sure, but untimeliness is not one of them. This show is being shot on location; those background scenes you see are the reality of living in post-Katrina New Orleans in September 2007. The dilemmas the characters face - families living in two cities, real estate speculators buying up property left and right, closed-door conversations about racial cleansing - are the reality of living in post-K New Orleans in September 2007. These are not old wounds; this is not an untimely drama. It is New Orleans in September 2007, two years after the flood.
Posted by: David Polk
Article: Features |"Tufts drops one spot in U.S. News and World Report" (Sept. 21)
This was a good report. It would be interesting, however, to explore further the reasons why the administration is still concerned with this rating, even though people pretend not to care. Fretting about this allows U.S. News to make us all seem like tools.
