“The points results this year are, to mix a few metaphors, a mixed bag, or like the Curate’s egg, good in parts, and depending on how you look at it, the glass is either half full or half empty. So who is happy when points rise or fall? One cannot help but have a sneaking suspicion that a rise in points for their courses flatters the egos of individual colleges, if colleges can be thought to have egos …” (more)
[Mary O’Donnell, Independent, 23 August]