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...League is justifiably proud of its athletes. The vast majority of Ivy athletes are serious students who graduate and attend graduate schools at the same rate as their non-athletic peers and who earn more money in the workplace. But the Ivy League’s pride in having higher principles and greater integrity than any other Division I athletic conference is unwarranted. As one Ivy coach put it, “The irony is that the Ivy League, by trying to be ‘holier than thou,’ has made the athletic recruiting process uglier than...
...brand is also dedicated to fair trade and eco-conscious business practices, like helping rose farmers in Turkey convert to biodynamic agriculture and teaching women in Burkina Faso how to turn shea nuts into butter so they can earn money to send their children to school...
...most famous of these centers of higher-education for the aspiring Indian official was Haileybury. All the candidates for the school were nominated by the directors from the East India Company. Those lucky enough to earn admission had “their time divided into four terms of twenty weeks” where they studied “mathematics and natural philosophy; classical and general literature, law, history, and general economy, and those oriental languages...
This is why the American teachers emphasize the power of beauty to “heal”—they really believe Afghan women will one day earn freedom and equality through earning an income to support themselves and their family...
...repeated from the podium incomplete information he had been given about the role of White House aides in leaking the name of former CIA officer Valerie Plame. "This relationship is built on trust," he told reporters last fall, "and you know very well that I have worked hard to earn the trust of the people in this room, and I think I've earned it, and I think I've earned it with the American people." A week later, McClellan said slyly, "I enjoy working with the people in this room most of the time...