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...admit that I looked a little clueless at times, and I am known for eating chocolate. But before you dismiss me entirely, understand that I met with many newspapers along my path, many of whom thereafter changed their tune to support the passage of campaign finance reform. Also, in the last miles, several thousand people were walking with me into Washington, including several dozen members of Congress, and we had lots of “Good Morning America” and NPR stories to raise the profile of the reform bill as it hit Congress. Gump had none of that...
Sometimes, Fitzsimmons says, it’s hard to make this standard clear to coaches. “They accuse us of admitting their [ranked recruit] lists in reverse order,” he says. “It’s very frustrating for a number of our coaches sometimes,” adds Athletic Director Robert L. Scalise, “because we look around the league, and our opponents, many would have preferred to come to Harvard. But the wisdom of our admit office is that they are not suited to be in our class...
...nickname for these academic all-stars conveniently slipped onto recruit lists—“boosters”—as well as the jocks who get in because of them: “gladiators.” Of course, no Harvard coach or admissions official will admit to any statistical balancing act, but many are eager to point fingers. “Some schools will be vocal about taking a lower-end AI person with a higher-end,” says men’s basketball head coach Frank Sullivan. Nonetheless, if you see a straight...
...Council of Ivy Group Presidents, the governing body of the Ivy League, announced that it would raise the floor two points, from 169 to 171, rendering Cornell’s entire first band off-limits. It also established caps on the total number of recruited athletes each school could admit and extended the AI median requirement to all 33 Ivy sports. Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings and Dartmouth President James Wright said that the changes reaffirmed the league’s commitment to its primary athletic doctrine, “representativeness:” “students...
...been issued against Radosavljevic. A New York court is also considering charges that he and other police officials are responsible for the deaths of three Albanian Americans from New York City, captured and then executed in southern Serbia by Serbian police in the summer of 1999. The Serbs--who admit that unknown police officials were behind the killings--say the men were trying to join Albanian guerrillas...