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...college football bowl season heats up, a topic much more unpleasant than marching bands and last-second field goals threatens to overshadow the rah-rah festivities: out-of-control coaches. A recent spate of disturbing incidents has brought unwanted off-field attention to the college game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are College Football Coaches Out of Control? | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

Most coaches aren't tyrants. Indeed, few have forgotten the lessons of Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight and Ohio State University football coach Woody Hayes - on-field dictators of the old school, whose bullying tactics tainted their otherwise remarkable athletic legacies. "It sounds like these guys were doing things the old-fashioned way and got busted," says Kenneth Shropshire, a Wharton School professor who is also a sports sociologist. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are College Football Coaches Out of Control? | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

Although the Crimson led 38-35 at the break, the Colonials still managed to shoot 46.2 percent from the field in the opening frame. In the second half, Harvard’s defense took over. The Crimson held George Washington to just two points over the first 9:24 of the period and 18 points in the entire half. Defensively, it was Harvard’s stingiest half of the season...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Defense Leads the Way for Men's Basketball | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

With these changes, the Crimson forced George Washington into shooting 6-of-24 from the field including one-of-nine from beyond...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Defense Leads the Way for Men's Basketball | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

Likewise, requiring passengers to remain seated for the last hour of the flight has little apparent safety value. "I've discussed that with many people within the aviation-security field. Nobody for the life of them can figure out what that would accomplish," says Douglas Laird, president of the international aviation-security consulting firm Laird & Associates and former security director for Northwest Airlines. A lengthy transatlantic flight would provide ample opportunity to set up and detonate an explosive device; limiting passengers' movements in the final 60 minutes, Laird says, is "just a symbolic gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Security Rules: Are We Any Safer? | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

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