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...Tasmanian tune-up for the Australian Open earlier this year, Williams, then ranked a paltry 94th in the world, fell to an Austrian named Sybille Bammer in a quarterfinal match. After some serious sobbing, Williams had what she calls her "Rocky moment." The next day, she stuffed a credit card into her sports bra--"in case I got thirsty"--and ran the steps of a Tasmanian park for hours. "I was just so mad," she says. "Whenever I got tired, I just thought to myself ... Bammer...
...guarantees that customers won't run into trouble with plagiarism or they'll get their money back and a free rewrite. There are hundreds of online paper mills like this one, catering to all the stressed-out, disaffected or just plain lazy students with Internet access and a credit card or money order. But just as the Internet has made it easier for kids to cheat, it's also helping high schools and colleges ferret out the flimflammers. Every day more than 100,000 papers are fed into Turnitin.com a plagiarism-detection site that compares each submission with billions...
While the most recent edition of the University of Central Florida’s Racial and Gender Report Card (2005) estimates that 20.6 percent of NCAA Division I scholarship athletes are black, Harvard’s recruited athletes—who cannot receive scholarships as per the rules of the Ivy League—do not come close to such a percentage...
...acceptable race of the average Harvard student. In the ensuing e-mail debate on numerous lists, such complaints were dismissed as touchy and divisive by a disturbingly large number of people. That’s right, they pulled the “playing-the-race-card” card...
...race and who does or does not “look like” your fellow student. Yet, rather than acknowledge any of this, in the wake of the Cabot incident, many people simply accused the concerned ABHW and BMF members of unnecessarily “playing the race card,” and bringing a racial component into a situation that clearly did not merit it. Some even expressed concern that discussion of this sensitive issue was too divisive, and would breed tension on campus that would damage the precious “community” we all hold...