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...fewer rules a coach has, the fewer there are for players to break. -on his approach to coaching, in The Book of Football Wisdom...
...interdisciplinary. “I think that’s part of the richness of what ethnic studies could bring,” said Carpio. “I think it would be helpful to see what the African-American Studies Department brought to Harvard. It is an interdisciplinary approach.” Both professors said that there would be challenges to implementing an ethnic studies program, including the possibility that such a curriculum would result in students simply studying their own cultures, and would therefore preclude meaningful academic pursuit. “It’s not about numbers...
...perceives to be genuine interest. “Maybe students were looking for a gut. It sounds easier than, say, ‘Shakespeare’s Problem Plays,’” she reflects. “But there is something very mature about their approach. I think many are looking for a way to go back home, to work through their own childhoods.”In class, Tatar is both erudite and whimsical, eliciting quiet attention and gleeful laughter. Yet, as students left her lectures last week, no one would own up to considering...
...approach worked. The Indian authorities "facilitated" negotiations between the pirates and the ship's owners, and the crew was released for an undisclosed ransom, believed to be much lower than the $6 million the pirates had initially demanded. At the same time, the Indian navy sent a warship, the INS Tabar, to the Gulf of Aden - for the first time deploying a warship in an offensive role in international waters. For close to 20 days, the INS Tabar escorted some 35 ships to safety, including non-Indian-flagged vessels, but it accidentally shot down a hijacked Thai trawler that...
...appears to be groping for the right approach to Obama, oscillating in recent weeks between acerbic criticism and conciliatory praise. When Obama said that Chávez aids Colombia's Marxist guerrilla violence (which Chávez in fact has renounced), the Venezuelan President shot back that Obama had "the same stench" as Bush. But when the U.S. Coast Guard called Venezuelan authorities last week for permission to board a Venezuelan boat involved in a cocaine bust, Chávez called it a "positive signal that never would have happened" under Bush...