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...Idol should not exist. It's a broad-based mainstream hit when series like that are no longer supposed to be. It has gained viewers in its sixth season, a TV near impossibility. It sells albums, at a time when very little else does. And by awarding a record contract by nationwide vote, it is dedicated to a heretical idea in the niche-media age: that you can please most of the people most of the time...
...search for the next coach of the Harvard men’s basketball team goes on.When Nichols Family Director of Athletics Bob Scalise announced on March 5 head coach Frank Sullivan’s contract would not be renewed, he created a vacancy at that position for the first time in 16 years, when Sullivan was hired to replace Peter P. Roby. The job has been unfilled for almost a month now and it is unclear when a new coach will be brought in.According to sophomore forward Evan Harris, the new coach will be selected by a committee involving...
...inferior skill, and other collegiate distractions deter such athletes from a stint at a university.The NCAA Tournament, by contrast, offers a stage to those amateur athletes whose majority will never reach the heights of the professional ranks. For most, there will be no appearance in the Olympics, big contract, or long athletic career.That does little to diminish the passion of the Tournament. Anybody who took the bus to Hartford to watch the Harvard women battle Maryland knows that. Perhaps more than any other event, the NCAA Tournament is sport for sport’s sake – a lucrative...
...composing the scores for Guys and Dolls, A Most Happy Fella and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He's also the subject of a toe-tappingly terrific new bio-doc, Heart & Soul: The Life and Music of Frank Loesser. But in the '40s he was under contract to Paramount, and there he wrote many of Hutton's signature songs...
...candidate and “unfair” to the professors involved in the process. A dozen professors either declined to speak about Adolphson’s situation or did not return requests for comment last night. Adolphson will have to leave the University after his contract ends next spring. Iman Khosrowpour, a third-year graduate student who drafted the letter, said that Adolphson “should have tenure because we think he’s the best in his field, not only as a scholar but as a mentor.” “At this point...