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That scene is now as dated as Pelé and skirted soccer gear. A year ago, just months after the hit film's U.S. release, the WUSA folded, citing crippling debt and $20 million in annual losses. Among other problems, the league spent itself into oblivion, having budgeted $40 million to finance its first five years yet laid out $100 million in the first three. Says industry consultant David Carter, founder of Sports Business Group, based in Redondo Beach, Calif.: "The WUSA blew through money like drunken dotcommers...
Hingle said that at present, there is “no way to make [income status] part of the application...instead, most admissions departments try to look at individual high schools, community groups, and gear-up programs to identify traditionally underprivileged students...
This summer’s closing of the Harvard Square Abercrombie and Fitch was well-timed; it coincided almost perfectly with the disposal of the last vestiges of high school Abercrombie gear from my own wardrobe. A nostalgic lump formed in my throat as I retired my A&F rugby jersey, #92, having never played a day of rugby in my life...
Salvatierra agrees. “Recently, I’ve been finding a greater authenticity to my music,” he says, citing complicated relationships and his travels as influences that kicked his writing into higher gear. He spent his junior fall in Spain where he began “playing a cheapo, nylon string guitar that probably made me think more about the melody and the words than the music part because I couldn’t make it sound good on such a cheap guitar.” One wall of Salvatierra’s room...
With Election Day less than a month away, the ongoing effort to turn out the vote—particularly in the coveted, and highly contested, swing states—moves into high gear. Independent groups and community organizations have mobilized their troops of ambitious civil soldiers, and all eyes are focused on Nov. 2. A central component in this crusade to enfranchise the chronically apathetic is the concerted effort to tap the ever-elusive, yet ever-important, youth vote. Today, the students of Winthrop House—in partnership with students at Penn State—join this effort...