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Amateurism is supposed to preserve a classical ideal of disinterested athleticism untainted by money. It supposedly levels the playing field, advantaging no competitor by athletic income or commercial interest. Neither justification holds water. The ancient Greek athletes, revered as ideals of human excellence, received huge sums for their victories. And regulations about parking lots and cereal boxes do not redress grave financial disparities in athletic opportunity...
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...open-plan kitchen-dining-living area with a cathedral ceiling. It also has a pair of stepped roofs aligned in parallel curves, each serving a different environmental purpose. The lower roof is covered in solar panels. The notoriously cloudy coast of Oregon might not seem like the ideal place to draw power from the sun, but because of a combination of serious insulation with sophisticated systems for generating heat and storing it in geothermal wells?basically warm holes in the ground?over the course of a year, the house actually produces more power than it consumes. Or, as Good puts...
...critical theory at a group of busy undergrads is not the answer. I probably don’t need to read Derrida’s take on Foucault’s take on Habermas’ interpretation of the Social Contract. Professors should distill—what a beautiful ideal!—and having distilled, recommend additional reading for those interested. Some professors argue that the problem is inherently disciplinary: some disciplines are, by necessity, more page-heavy than others. There is certainly some truth to that contention, but it hides some insidious assumptions. Most notably, some contend that...
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