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...station and switched the ticket to my name and left. I was out of the country within forty minutes. But I knew I had to come back, because I didn't want to do a film about whether you could live privately abroad. The PIs did say to me, "Go anywhere in the world. We'll catch you." But I ended up coming back to Britain...
What was your downfall? I wanted to last 30 days, but they caught me a little before that. My wife was heavily pregnant while I was on the run, and she got ill. She needed to go to the hospital and she needed me to come [with her]. I took a lot of precautions: I was really careful about how I entered the hospital, but they hacked into her medical details, and they knew she was going to be there and assumed it would draw me out of hiding...
...said that politics is the art of compromise, a tactic that ensures both sides go away unhappy. President Barack Obama has proved himself a master of the compromise, at least in his energy and environmental policy - and he is reaping the criticism that comes with...
...full year after they graduate high school. Although the outcome of this decision was nebulous to coaches and players alike at the time of its announcement, enough time has passed now to gauge the rule’s repercussions. For the prodigious high school players that used to go directly to the NBA, like Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, the route to the pros now involves an obligatory one-year stop in college. Superficially it would seem that some time in school is better than none at all. However, the “academic” trip these players take...
Presumably the NCAA, the governing body of U.S. intercollegiate athletics, prides itself on the emphasis of student in the student-athlete, with advertising campaigns, graduation rate statistics, and online guides. However, in practicality they go directly against those practices. Widely seen Final Four tournament television coverage is frequently given to stars who will be packing their bags after just one season. This spotlight makes it blaringly clear how little value is put on being a student, when in these cases only one quarter of the college commitment is finished. These “students” send the message...