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...Give Cal a Certificate of Attendance award. Call him the Strom Thurmond of baseball. But don't make him a hero. Save that designation for Gehrig. Or Jackie Robinson, and the great black stars before him whom institutional racism kept from playing in the bigs. Or the famously reckless, play-through-pain Pete Reiser (who was so mangled after hitting the wall at Ebbets Field in 1947 that he was given the last rites, and played on). Or Pete Gray, who lost an arm in childhood yet still played a year in the majors. Or some schmo with average skills...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara M. Bloom reasserted the government’s claim that these same undisputed facts warranted an award of $102 million without having to resort to a jury trial...
...change in nomenclature from “scholarship” to “scholar” would emphasize the purely honorary nature of the scholarships, which come with no monetary award, he wrote in an e-mail last night...
Today these conflicts may result in the imposition of a hefty cost on Harvard— a full decade after the alleged transgressions. The possible legal award to the Department of Justice does not, however, address the issues that this case raises for all of us affiliated with the University. Harvard, through HIID, served the private interests of several of its officers—in direct conflict with their jobs, their obligations to the US government and the interests of the Russian country...
...making films," says Dang Nhat Minh, the distinguished Vietnamese auteur who, as a favor to Noyce, shot second unit on the first major U.S.-financed film made in Vietnam since the war. The budget for The Quiet American was $30 million?100 times what Dang spent for his award-winning The Season of Guavas. "Basically, it's the same. Here, they just have a lot more equipment...