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...Michigan after coaching there for six seasons, has been mentioned by the Boston Globe, Sportsline.com, and the Detroit News as a serious candidate.One reason Amaker’s name has come up is he is not only a big-name coach, but he is also African-American. Harvard has no African-American coaches leading any of its 41 varsity teams, a point harped on by the Globe and CBSSportsline.com in recent articles. Two other prominent African-American coaches mentioned were former St. Johns coach Mike Jarvis, and former Arkansas coach Stan Heath. Heath won’t be taking...
...Kennedy comparison also delivers a subtle reminder that anyone can be elected president. Kennedy defied all expectations that a Catholic was unelectable; Obama wants to do the same as an African-American. Kennedy was only the second sitting U.S. Senator to be elected president; Obama would be the third. Kennedy was perceived as inexperienced; Obama actually...
...their brains. And even if the 2007 Hoyas fail to win the national title on April 2 in Atlanta, Thompson's team has done more to smash that perception than any other in recent memory. "If you think of the Princeton Offense, you wouldn't think a team of African-American guys can run it," notes Georgetown star Jeff Green, whose last-second bank shot against Vanderbilt in the regional semifinals kept the Hoyas on their magical run. Why? he asks himself, mocking the ignorance. "Because we're not ?disciplined' enough...
...know it; you know it. And I think it’s important to say, this is a problem in higher education generally,” she said yesterday. According to Academic Dean Robert B. Schwartz, there is not “an adequate pipeline” of African-American and Latino scholars graduating from high quality doctoral programs. “You got this high demand and limited supply which is what makes this such a challenge in the long run,” he said.Schwartz added that Harvard has struggled to hold on to some academics because...
...younger brother of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu. He lost a bid to replace New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin last year. But the state's scrambled demographics could complicate matters: Hurricane Katrina cut the population of New Orleans, a Democratic stronghold, by half. And while many of those voters, mostly African-American, have resettled elsewhere in Louisiana, the dispersal will make it harder for Democrats to cobble together the coalition of black and Cajun votes that have traditionally helped them squeak by in statewide races...