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...professor of sports management at the Wharton School of Business. "You have to factor in the degree of the wrong, how quickly the apology was made and how many people were hurt." Against that, you have Woods' freakish ability. "If he's going out and playing at a high level, that has proved itself to be the best way to move beyond these incidents...
Linda Ellison, a lecturer on women, gender, and sexuality, said she was impressed with the students’ organization of the event but disappointed with the administration’s failure to address the subject of AIDS at a University-wide level...
Rosenthal said that the Northeast was one of the last areas to be hit by the spread of H1N1, meaning that the nationwide trend may not hold on a regional level...
Back in Europe, a handful of winemakers have taken the Roman revival to the next level. In the southern Rhône, Philippe Viret had an epiphanic moment several years ago when tasting the cuvée Pithos by Azienda Agricola Cos - a star vineyard in the current Sicilian wine renaissance that ferments Frappato in simple terra-cotta amphorae. Joining with an artisan potter in 2007, Viret now creates an amphora-fermented Mourvèdre assemblage, with Muscat Petit Grain and Clairette Rose cuvées to come. He vaunts the gentle, low temperatures of fermentation in clay...
While schools have been a much-touted success in Afghanistan, the reality is that education and literacy levels are abysmally low. It matters little how many aid dollars are spent on school buildings when the teachers inside operate at a reading level only slightly higher than that of their students. A fraction of the money spent on expensive foreign development consultants or military assets could be invested in nationwide literacy programs with far greater returns. For those who complain that education programs take at least a generation to mature, imagine what Afghanistan would be like today if there had been...