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...scions' friendship has thrived despite some searching tests. They were opposing generals in Australia's rugby-league war of the mid-'90s. While Murdoch was recruiting players to join News Ltd.'s rebel competition known as the Super League, Packer was trying to keep them loyal to the 90-year-old Australian Rugby League. (The parties eventually compromised.) In 2001, while Packer and Murdoch were executives in their fathers' companies, they jointly invested in One.Tel, a deal that cost both companies a total of about $500 million when the cut-price mobile-phone company collapsed. Packer encouraged Murdoch's involvement...
...fact that I lack the graceful swanlike legs of a dancer, can’t count a beat, and have enormous, boat-like feet. “Cultural Rhythms” just does that to you; it makes you want to sing along, to get up and dance, to join the beat.“Cultural Rhythms,” an annual showcase of talent from Harvard’s diverse student groups, featured 28 different performances this Saturday. Every year, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, which sponsors the event, chooses an Artist of the Year...
...also mete it out themselves. The Darfur conflict today bears little resemblance to the one that seized international attention four years ago. The rebels are splintered into as many as 20 competing factions; groups of janjaweed militias, dissatisfied with the rewards promised by the government, are crossing sides to join their former enemies; and warring among all tribes has increased. Amid the chaos, the regime of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir continues its brutal crackdown, aggressively attacking rebel redoubts, indiscriminately killing civilians and razing entire villages...
...identified by only one part of his or her personality. Clearly, I’m biased. But I think that’s a noble goal.”Leaders of Harvard’s various BGLT groups say the decision of gay and lesbian students to join or go it alone is similar to one faced by members of nearly all the College’s cultural organizations. Sophie B. Besl ’08, who co-chairs Girlspot, says, “there’s always this group of gays that are ‘too cool...
...included in Thamel’s article, the one about Blakeney in particular, are distressing. The piece describes Blakeney, who played at Duke when Amaker was an assistant there, playing pickup games and developing friendly relationships with a pair of recruits in the months before he was hired to join Amaker’s staff. Both of the recruits, Max Kenyi and Keith Wright, were eventually wooed to commit to the Crimson and confirmed their meetings with Blakeney in the story. NCAA rules forbid contact by team staffers with recruits during the months in which the meetings occurred and also...