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...last week—Summers has so far kept silent. Wen’s visit is a golden opportunity for Summers to finally speak up for one of Harvard’s own. Yang is a member of the University community, and his cause is one that Harvard should champion with words and deeds. As of now, Summers has not even gotten to the former. It would be unconscionable for the University president to further neglect advocating for Yang’s release during the visit of such a high-level Chinese cadre...
...given a two-year suspended sentence and temporarily barred from practicing law, the world has been watching ever since - which is one reason why Ebadi, 56, will be in Oslo this week to receive the 2003 Nobel Prize for Peace. She is being honored as Iran's human-rights champion - a defender of political prisoners, oppressed women, abused children - and though she shuns politics, the award gives a needed boost to the freedom struggle in Iran. Despite high hopes raised by the election of moderate President Mohammed Khatami six years ago, hard-line clerics in Tehran have blocked major change...
...consensus decision, the representatives attending the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) meetings two weeks ago in New Orleans have decided not to consider a playoff to decide the Division I-A college football champion...
First, every other division in college football—I-AA, II and III—uses a playoff system to decide its champion. Of course, those divisions don’t have to worry about unearthing a lucrative four-bowl system that serves the sole purpose of benefiting the six wealthiest conferences at the expense of the game’s integrity...
...playoffs should involve as few games as possible in order to arrive at a true champion...