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...specifications and lease it to me for $1 per year-but there had to be accountability. How would he know if I was succeeding or not? I told him my goals-a 90% graduation rate and 90% of graduates going on to college. If I didn't meet those bench marks after three graduating classes, he could take the school away and let someone else give...
...Crimson victory was made sweeter when junior midfielder Pablo Koe-Krompecher added the afternoon’s final score. Though the goal mattered little in the outcome of the game—Harvard was leading 2-0 with only 3:58 to play—the bench and Koe-Krompecher jumped up in ecstasy as the junior recorded his first ever collegiate tally...
...obscure the Supreme Court’s fundamental misinterpretation of the Eighth Amendment. Capital punishment is cruel and unusual by modern standards, and no Court fully committed to upholding the Constitution can find a place for it in our country. The Supreme Court did not only disgrace its bench by failing to protect the mentally insane from execution, but indeed disgraces it every time the Court refuses to eradicate execution altogether...
...their first practice test, and few appreciate being passed over for a defensive lineman who could barely get into Cornell if he didn’t play football. An increasingly vocal set of critics think that traditional academic considerations are all too often left on the bench. Former Princeton president William G. Bowen just published the follow-up book to his 2000 The Game of Life, called Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values, arguing that recruited athletes are academically and socially unrepresentative of the student bodies at elite schools. And this summer, in the name of improving...
Bush can no longer bench his opponents and gag dissent, but Democrats have been slow to wake from their post-Sept. 11 hibernation. They continue to wallow in Bostonian fatalism, even though they have stumbled into an unprecedented opportunity. A New York Times poll released Friday reported that Bush’s manipulation machine has lost its mojo, and that if elections were held today, the eventual Democratic candidate would finish neck-and-neck with Bush...