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...book out this fall, Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education (Henry Holt), Indiana University professor Murray Sperber compares the American university of 2000 with Rome circa A.D. 100. To keep the populace happy, corrupt Emperors used bread and circuses. In the modern university, administrators use beer and circuses--or Division I athletics and the binge drinking that accompanies it--to distract students from their crowded lecture classes and inattentive professors. Sperber argues that the ncaa, the advertisers who profit from college sports and the Animal House undergrads are all complicit in the deteriorating quality...
...vote for Ralph is a political Molotov that we need to throw into a corrupt and bankrupt system," Moore said. "It's a wasted vote if you vote for more of the same, which is what you're going to get if you vote for Gore or Bush...
There is little in Africa to make one happy: AIDS, civil wars, corrupt democracies, military governments and stagnant economies. Recently, though, there has been the glimmer of a renaissance, as the world has begun to focus more closely on the problems there. When I saw that TIME had celebrated the world's most powerful civil servant, Annan, an African, I felt hopeful. I am very, very proud to be an African. ASHER LULUFA VONGTAU Kaduna, Nigeria...
...hard to know what to make of the Hunter mess and of the turbocharging pharmaceuticals that so corrupt athletics now - all the potions to build up jocks with muscle mass and aggression and more red blood cells (and a bloated liver, maybe). One feels pained for Andreea Raducan, the 16-year-old Romanian gymnast who was stripped of her gold medal in the all-around competition because, it seems, her team physician had prescribed a cold remedy containing the stimulant pseudoephedrine. Was it fair to take the medal away when her intent seemed innocent? But what of the doctor...
...lender had actually exacerbated the economic crisis in countries such as Indonesia two years ago by insisting on harsh austerity measures as a condition for a financial bailout - which made the poorest and most vulnerable members of society pay the price for the errors of that nation's notoriously corrupt elite. Wolfensohn on Tuesday even saluted the demonstrators. "I believe deeply that many of them are asking legitimate questions, and I embrace the commitment of a new generation to fight poverty," said Wolfensohn. "I share their passion and their questions, but I believe we can move forward only...