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...after an athlete decides to join the professional ranks.Most importantly, college competition is often seen as an obstacle to development and improvement. Minor technicalities like class time, playing with teammates of 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...
...over Jared Kobren and Jeff Chudacoff. In singles action, Harvard dominated as well, winning all six matches. In the No. 2 spot, sophomore Sasha Ermakov posted a quick 6-1, 6-2 win against the Terriers’ Weinstein, sailing past his opponent, in marked contrast to his grueling matches during spring break. This was soon followed by another Harvard victory from No. 5 Kalfayan over Chudacoff by a score of 6-2, 6-0. At No. 3, senior Shantanu Dhaka defeated Gallarotti 6-1 6-1, in his first match back after suffering an ankle injury last year...
...imagine that Harvard decided to divest from every offending oil company in the Sudan within a few years of its launching operations. Given that it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to begin drilling, such large sunk costs would make the company loathe to pull out. In contrast, if oil companies knew before entering or expanding operations that doing so would make them subject to divestment, they might behave differently. Only a targeted divestment policy, by defining the actions that warrant divestment, would effectively deter an oil company from entering the country or proactively affect its behavior...
...Saudi-U.S. differences are highlighted by the summit's endorsement of the Mecca Agreement under which Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to establish a national unity government to end Palestinian infighting. In contrast to the continued U.S. insistence that Hamas be boycotted, the Saudis believe that peace negotiations can only succeed if Hamas can be drawn into the process. The Islamist movement is, after all, the democratically elected ruling party in the Palestinian Authority. "The U.S. is a prisoner of contradictions of its own making," the Arab diplomats adds. "They shouted 'democracy, democracy, democracy,' and then ended...
...federal building, by contrast, sits lightly on its site and does so using technology that is available. Computer-operated floor vents open and close automatically in response to temperature sensors; interior walls and cubicle partitions are kept to a minimum to increase circulation; automated panels that filter out glare also help air move around the building, creating what the designers call a circulation engine. "Buildings can use passive as well as active energy," says architect Thom Mayne of the firm Morphosis, which designed the building...