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...cafés around the world, aspiring scholars learned that Harvard will compromise for students who show enough promise—at basketball.It is hard to deny that the school’s resources could be better spent reaching out to those academically capable students striving to gain an education in disadvantaged areas—whether in the West Bank or East Cleveland.The choice we face is not exactly “either-or,” but when it comes down to it, the college’s overall recruiting practices should project our belief in the power...
...logged nine more errors in an inconsistent team effort. Shaky serving in particular devastated the Crimson early, preventing it from building much-needed momentum. In the second game alone, Harvard players made five service errors. This inability to hold the ball made it difficult for the struggling squad to gain its footing, but as the Crimson players relaxed the offense began to flow.“Serving just got a lot better. Everyone was more aggressive, more confident and I think it showed in their play,” Weintraub said. The sophomore led the team with five aces...
...examples of diminished civil liberties, there are few, if any, where the motivating factor was something other than law and order or national security. There are no scandalous examples of the White House using the Patriot Act powers for political purposes or of individual agents using them for personal gain. The Justice IG report released Thursday, for example, examined some 50,000 National Security Letters issued in 2006 to see whether the FBI misused that specialized kind of warrantless subpoena. The IG found some continuing abuse of the power, but blamed it for the most part on sloppiness...
...Trippin’.” While the song iscertainly unique, the video is a completemindfuck. What is with the voice box andretro outfits? What are all these smokemachines and Van Buren-esque muttonchops doing in my gangsta rap video?How did Snoop’s bed gain the momentumto break Earth’s gravitational pull?Snoop Dogg has made the unusualdecision at this part of his career to resurrectthe spirit of the Zapp Band—an80s electro-funk phenomenon. A lot ofthe production on this album is a soupof keyboards and soul samples, syrupyR&B crooners...
...start, and both Hamas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stand to gain from making the cease-fire, or "lull," as it is called by both sides, last a bit longer. An extended truce would give Hamas recognition in its power struggle with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who sits in the West Bank, and it might lead to the lifting of a crippling economic blockade on Gaza imposed after Hamas swept out Abbas loyalist fighters from the strip last June...