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...riot in Detroit also set off a second battle across the country, as everyone from sports-radio yakkers to families gathered for Thanksgiving dinner tried to assign blame for the rise of incivility in spectator sports--the athletes or the fans? Call it a jump ball. It's easy to view Artest and Wallace as typical modern athletes: too wealthy and too self-involved. Traveling in chartered jets, surrounded by hangers- on, coddled by agents, they have more in common with CEOs than ordinary Joes. But the distance between athletes and the people who pay to see them...
...format of the SAT will only increase the need for tutoring and the importance of attending an elite high school. Schools with smaller classes have been shown to assign more essays and writing assignments than those with large class sizes. Furthermore, writing skills can be taught and students will soon be attending classes in large numbers to learn how to write exactly what the colleges want to hear. That is, students who can afford to do so—wealthier ones...
...It’s completely possible that they’ve peaked, that their good luck will sour and that the follow-up will be quickly and deservedly disowned. But even if they’re headed down that familiar dark road, I think we should pause before we assign blame to the promotional muscle of the USPS. You say there’s added pressure now because of this licensing deal, that the band will feel compelled to out-gimmick themselves to cater to a new audience. I don’t see it. The USPS isn?...
...sent a distressed letter of response to University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, expressing their concerns about the precipitous slide in tenure offers. This fall, 73 female senior faculty members agreed to sign a statement urging the administration “to assign its highest priority to reversing the downward trend of the past three years in FAS senior offers to women.” Summers and Kirby agreed to meet with 50 female senior faculty members on October 6 in the Barker Center. Both expressed concern about the drop in offers...
...class- mates turn into a chorus, chanting lines ("You think you know me, but you don't") that echo key themes of the drama. And when the play is over, a moderator guides the audience through a postshow discussion as the actors, in character, defend their actions and theatergoers assign them to chairs, ranking their behavior from most to least objectionable...