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...points seem to be central to Caldwell’s sweeping assertion??the first being the underlying assumption that athletes here are somehow hugely academically inferior to other students, which is just absurd. Every athlete that gets in does so because he or she is capable of doing the work, its just an admissions fact. And while I don’t deny that many of us might not have been admitted on grades alone, the fact is that playing sports is a valuable skill, just like playing an instrument, singing in a band, or being a science...

Author: By Ian M. Tallett | Title: Strong Athletics and Academics Can Co-Exist | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

...side of the main auditorium in the basement of the Carpenter Center, having just watched four films as part of a Harvard Film Archive series entitled “Adventures in Surrealism,” and I’m desperately looking for a reference to support my assertion??that many people who’ve never really learned about surrealism are still familiar with aspects of it that have been copied or parodied or popularized somehow...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All Eyes on Surrealism | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...Angry Prophet” and “Happy Warrior.” “It is more complicated at the top of the heap,” they insightfully noted of Dean, who they said was “being pummeled from every angle, and his every assertion??examined under a microscope.” But rather than showing how that process was working, their next sentence went ahead and pummeled Dean, repeating as fact a series of stale, illogical campaign-trail critiques...

Author: By J. hale Russell, | Title: Howard Dean, Meet Yellow Journalism | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

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