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Enter Myles Brand. The president of the NCAA unveiled last week the most aggressive athletic-reform measures in decades. For the first time, schools whose athletes don't meet a new minimum academic standard--roughly equivalent to a 50% graduation rate--stand to lose scholarships and risk harsher sanctions down the road such as being barred from lucrative post-season play. The organization fired loud warning shots, posting report cards on its website that detail which specific teams face the biggest challenges (UConn basketball and Ohio State football among them) and giving them a year to shape up or risk...
...skilled workers in a number of industries, particularly construction, and the price of raw materials and wages is rising. For instance, in Queensland electrical workers at Energex and Ergon secured a 31% pay rise over three years. Unless spending slows, inflationary pressures can spread across the economy, inviting a harsher interest-rate response, and lower rates of growth - a waste of potential and income the community is unlikely to accept. Over time, so-called microeconomic reforms can improve the nation's supply side. But it won't make any difference in this phase of history - such reforms take years...
...months later, when officers at Guant??namo, frustrated by the lack of usable intelligence they were getting from prisoners, asked Washington to approve the use of more aggressive techniques than the 17 methods in the manual, the legal groundwork had already been prepared for a new age of harsher--and now legal--interrogation. In December 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld signed off on 16 additional measures for use at Gitmo, including stress positions, such as standing for long periods; isolation for up to a month; hooding during transportation and questioning; removal of clothing; and "exploiting individual phobias, e.g., dogs...
...enough of a visible presence in my life—and vice versa—that he picked up on a detail that had eluded even my roommate. But in the midst of such familiarity, even cordiality, it’s sometimes easy to forget that winter is much harsher on some than others. The cold, rainy walk from Winthrop to Boylston is unsavory enough; imagine sleeping that same night on the ground near the Coop...
...legal opinion from a Justice Department agency that ultimately argued that subjecting suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in captivity to extreme stress "may be justified." When abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison came to light last spring, some Administration critics cited that memo as the legal backbone for the harsher treatment of prisoners, which is now the subject of court-martial proceedings...