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...Your article once again paints a negative picture of the transformation in South African rugby. While much remains to be done to increase the numbers of persons of color in our teams, there are dozens of players of color representing their provinces at the levels of premier and national competition, and many of these will soon make it into the highest level. Your article says that race should be the reason for selection and omits the simple requirement of merit. But selecting players based on race only serves to demean them. Brian Habana is regarded here as a rugby player...
...recent essay in the New Republic addressed the nature of swearing. Will understanding the nature of taboos make them less taboo? SP: Somewhat. It doesn’t make them go away. I think taboo words activate primitive parts of the brain and just understanding them at a cognitive level keeps that emotional reaction in check and keeps us from accessing it too much, but it doesn’t keep us from having the emotional response. Only obscenity has the ability to engage that subtle strong emotion.6.FM: You have one of the most recognizable faces in science. Does that...
Prior to this incident, I had always thought of my parents as reasonable, level-headed Midwesterners. They saved their spare change for rainy days, didn’t get too incensed about politics, and even helped our neighbors out with the two-foot dumps of snow that make surviving Minnesotan winters a Herculean feat. They were far too sensible to fall for deceitful scams and Ponzi schemes–or so I had thought...
When John is stuck in the broiling heat of extended spring training in Arizona, the boredom is palpable. And when he is cut from the roster of the Rookie-level Bristol Sox in June, the hurt is real: “I was frozen. Frozen with all of the emotions [that] were racing through my mind, body, and soul...
...Harvard,” said co-captain Phillip W. Roebuck ’08. Red Line, like all club sports at Harvard, gets just $400 a year from the Athletic Department. The team’s competitors are club teams as well, but many of them receive greater levels of financial support, Roebuck said. Brown’s Ultimate team receives $15,000 in funding from the school’s administration, he said. (A captain of the Brown team did not return a request for comment.) The Red Line must fund the rest of its $30,000 budget independently...