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One of the more interesting chapters deals with the immeasurable contribution of Henry Chadwick , a 19th century newspaperman , without whose keen mind and foresight we might not have the myriad statistics that are , as he put it , the " mortar of which baseball is held together . Instead of storing absolute priority values at each node , we store relative priority values , specifically the difference between the node 's assigned priority and that of its parent . Like an archaeologist delving into the earth , unsure of what he 'll find , Toronto author Michael Ondaatje immerses himself in the writing process . " You do n't want to write your own opinion , you do n't want to just represent yourself , but represent yourself through someone else . This is a very nice paper on the effect of caching on index structures which was turned in as the final report for a class similar to ours at UC Irvine . You can easily code hash tables ( of any kind ) yourself ; ditto for lists with move-to-front heuristics , plain binary search trees , randomized binary search trees ( treaps ) , binary heaps , binomial heaps , skew heaps , trivial pairing heaps , skip lists , and leftist trees . Kermode himself has no need to hide behind arcane platitudes . I prefer that , if possible , you code up these data structures yourself , and include your source code in the report . From the Master himself ! Use the month as an excuse to develop the habit of reading poetry and then maybe , if we are lucky , the temptation will persist and sustain us for a lifetime . Developing solutions to solve the problems that we are encountering is becoming an increasingly difficult task . Six of the homes are owned by Jenrette himself , and he offers a personal account of his experiences in Adventures with Old Houses . You can also find on the web a number of class papers written for classes not too different from ours ; they will vary from short projects like ours to semester-long senior projects . The most terrible experience is to see yourself age . In The English Patient ( 1992 ) , Almasy discovers a cave and Kip , the sapper , lowers himself into the earth to diffuse bombs . You have to keep on going and believe in yourself .