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...shallow tidal waters near Knight Inlet Lodge, in British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, I catch sight of two grizzlies, the first I have ever seen in the wild. Four-year-olds, they hang out and fool around, rather like human teenagers. Then five more bears stroll out of the forest--a female with a golden cub and another mother with two cubs. The mothers nurse the 18-month-old cubs and scoop up some of the hundreds of thousands of salmon on their way up the inlet to spawn and die. Then another bear appears, followed by tiny triplets...
...fact, I am a happy camper, or in more formal terms, a satisfied ecotourist, defined by the Ecotourism Society as someone engaged in "responsible travel to natural areas, which conserves the environment and improves the welfare of local people." Here in the Great Bear Rainforest--which lies between Knight Inlet, about 100 air miles northwest of Vancouver, and the Alaska border--are some of the highest concentrations of grizzlies in North America. Up to three times as many live here as in all the U.S. Not only can I commune (at a safe distance) with the bears...
Indiana University's stunning decision to fire Bobby Knight presents Harvard with an historic opportunity to revitalize its Athletic Department--by hiring him as the men's basketball coach. Though current head coach Frank Sullivan has conducted himself as a perfect Ivy League gentleman and vastly improved the team during his tenure, Knight can bring Harvard to a new level. The simple, sad fact is that the Crimson has never won an Ivy League championship, consistently falling victim to the triumvirate of Dartmouth, Penn and Princeton...
This solution should satisfy both sides of the Bobby Knight debate. For his supporters, Knight receives a chance to a bring an athletically prestigious Division I school to a place it has never been. Taking Harvard to the Big Dance would cement his Hall of Fame credentials as an accomplishment on par with anything Dean Smith or John Wooden has done...
...Knight has publicly stated that he would coach basketball tomorrow if offered the right position. Realistically, however, it is unlikely that the Harvard job fits his criteria, and it is even less likely that he would be offered the job in the first place. On the other hand, hiring Knight would, for once, put the fear of God into Princeton...