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When Richard C. Knight '90 was 16 years old and living in Northern England, he was signed by the Carlisle United Football Club to play professional soccer. Not unlike other young men his age, he had committed himself to a two-year apprentice program that would prepare him for the world of British football...
...submit a short statement detailing their reasons for running for the position and their stance on making the Coop's directors more accountable to their constituents. The following candidates expressed a commitment to making the Coop's governance more open: Alex Edelstein, Gordon M. Fauth, Jr., Carey M. Knight, Beth Noveck, Pieter M. Pil, Gina Raimondo and Conrad Yun. Of the candidates who responded, only Jed Arkin specifically said that Coop elections should not be more issue-oriented. We did not receive responses from Paul E. Dans and Sarah A.L. Tabler. The following candidates could not be reached: John...
...into the coffers. But it also stretches out seasons, wreaks havoc with schedules and helps boost the importance of sports at the expense of academics. Indiana University was forced to play three basketball games this season at 9:30 p.m. to suit ESPN's Monday-night schedule. Coach Bobby Knight complained, noting that his players did not get home from away games until 3 a.m. "To hell with damned ESPN," he told a campus newspaper. "This is absolutely ridiculous to put a college student through." Other Big Ten coaches are more sanguine about the trade-off. "When you talk about...
...United States will win the World Cup. Bobby Knight will simmer down. The Red Sox will win the World Series. The Rangers will win the Stanley Cup. The senior baseball league will gain respectability. George Foreman will defeat Tyson for the title. Whoops, slipped back into what won't happen in the '90s. Sorry...
...Brown, a world-class thinker about the unthinkable and nobody's softy, acknowledged back in the 1970s that a Soviet decision to attack American missiles would be a "cosmic roll of the dice." Yet Soviets play chess; they do not shoot craps. Stalin advanced several black pawns and a knight against one of white's most vulnerable squares, West Berlin, in 1948. Nikita Khrushchev tried a similar gambit in 1961, and he was downright reckless over Cuba in 1962. The stupidity as well as the failure of that move contributed to his downfall...