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However, if the Estrada verdict is a victory for her government, it's a Pyrrhic one. Said Benito Lim, a political analyst and professor at the Ateneo de Manila University: "If the government thinks this decision will lead to closure, that is not going to happen. Estrada is appealing his case; this alone will take at least a year. And, in the meantime, he insists he's not guilty. And there are plenty of people that believe...
...Since 1985, the average weight of NFL players has ballooned 10%, to 248 pounds, according to a recent study by Scripps Howard News Service. The heaviest position, offensive tackle, has gone from 281 pounds two decades ago to 318 pounds today. So, the dozens of high-speed hits that happen every game carry a higher likelihood of potentially hazardous results. While catastrophic injuries like Everett's remain rare, reports of concussions and other severe trauma on the football field are starting to pile up even at the high school and college level. In a study of high school and college...
...luggage into their new rooms and started unpacking last week, most received quite a shock. No, Harvard hadn’t renovated their rooms, installed cable television, eradicated chronic cockroach infestations, or emplaced air conditioning/central heating units. (The Allston campus will probably be completed before any of these things happen.) Rather, it was the absence of Harvard’s (in)famous red phones and institutional, mostly lumpy, and sometimes-yellowing pillows...
...reaches zero emissions, or the Undergraduate Council’s recommendation of 11 percent reduction by 2020, the most important impact of any green project will radiate from the campus in the form of a greener lifestyle embedded in the minds and hearts of graduates. But this will only happen if they are made fully aware of each project’s merits...
...generally regarded as the top 300 schools,” said Brandon P. Jones ’00, the national director of SAT and ACT programs for Kaplan. He said that after several schools ended their early programs, “one of the things we anticipated could happen...was that a whole host of those schools could make the same decision.” But this was not the case, according to the survey. Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that this apparent lack of response from other institutions is neither surprising nor worrisome...