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...organizers have so far trodden more delicately than Packer ever did. IPL contracts stipulate that national duties will take precedence over the annual tournament, which starts April 18 and goes for six weeks. But where those national duties clash with the chance to earn quick bucks in India, players are already getting restless. Australian captain Ricky Ponting wants a window created in the calendar for the IPL, lest aging players make a calculated decision to retire early from their Test careers. Teammate Andrew Symonds, snared at auction by Hyderabad for $1.35 million over three years, has made it clear...
...motivated, is an impassioned orator who can draw crowds of tens of thousands. His cult of personality drives the People's Justice Party, whose racial diversity is rare in Malaysian politics. But Anwar was banned from politics for five years because of his jail time. The embargo expires in April. Given that Abdullah could have called elections any time over the next 15 months, the choice of poll date leaves many Malaysians feeling that he is intentionally excluding a certain former deputy premier...
Columbine High School was faced with the same issue. In the days following the April 1999 massacre in which 12 students and a teacher were killed, the school formed committees to carefully consider the building's fate. "Right after the tragedy, emotions were high, very high," recalls Frank DeAngelis, the school's principal for the last dozen years. The committees dismissed suggestions to demolish the building. "There was the belief that if we tore down the buildings, the two murderers would have won," DeAngelis says, referring to the high school seniors who staged the Columbine attacks. Instead, the school opened...
...Harvard intending to act as representatives of their countries, they often find themselves in the position of educators. Near the end of last semester, Sengeh founded the Harvard College Sierra Leone Initiative (HCSLI) for the purpose of educating and increasing awareness of Sierra Leonean issues on campus. In April, Sengeh says that he plans to hold a panel discussion with key players involved in Sierra Leone’s independence and development. Harvard students are not the only ones benefitting from HCSLI, whose Web site references the greater possibility of cultural exchange. In the “About Us?...
...April, I saw that Gavin DeGraw would be in Cambridge,” Andersen said. “We always tend to get mediocre artists [for Yardfest], so I thought it would be for that...