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...sorry to have to be the harbinger of bad news, but it has to be said: The rest of the world has not only caught up to the American women in soccer, they’ve actually surpassed and outclassed them. And who’s to blame? There are a number of culprits, of course, but the systems of American youth and collegiate soccer are the chief offenders...
...today,” said Douglass S. Massey, president of the AAPSS. Massey organized the event with Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson. The evening began with speaker James Q. Wilson, a former Harvard professor and Moynihan’s close friend, who said the deceased politician never assigned blame to individuals for the often high rates of poverty, unemployment, and incarceration in the black community. Instead, Moynihan saw slavery and persisting discrimination as the main culprits, Wilson said. Geyser University Professor William J. Wilson said that local editorials at the time “embellished” Moynihan?...
...certainly can't blame Ryan Boatright and his family for wanting to secure a spot at usc. "So many people are getting loans and are in great debt just to pay for college," says Boatright's mother Tanesha, 32. "To get a free ride, as a single mother with four kids, that's all you can ask for." That's surely sensible. But in a saner world, kids like Ryan wouldn't be tempted to jump so young. Let his game mature--at 14, he needs muscle, and rotation on his jump shot. Let his mind mature--maybe...
...Still, Bush faces long odds in cementing his legacy as starting the conversation on entitlement reform, when so many activists blame him for botching the effort. "He just stumbled out of the barn and said: 'We want to reform Social Security,'" Weyrich said. To bring it up now, in the final 16 months of his presidency, "when he's a lame duck and Democrats control Congress," Weyrich added, "I just...
CORRECTION: The Sept. 26 magazine article "Outside the Bubble, Out of the Loop" incorrectly reported that Harvard was to blame for the fact that Alexandra M. Gutierrez '08 missed a deadline for filing paperwork to return to campus. In fact, Gutierrez pointed to confusion about deadlines, not a miscommunication by Harvard, as the reason for missing the deadline. In addition, one clause erroneously and inadvertently included in the original version of this article has been deleted...