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Last week the nation’s second-largest athletic program acknowledged that the recession had dealt it a devastating blow. MIT, proud former promoter of 41 varsity sports ranging from the mainstream to the obscure (the Engineers sported one of the best air pistol squads in the country), cut eight of its teams, including alpine skiing, men’s and women’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s gymnastics, golf, pistol, and wrestling...
...familiar “hip-pop” melodies to the clichéd Scarface-esque album cover, “Deeper than Rap” does not stand out. Ross does little more than reference the themes of ascent, extravagance, and egocentric introspection that are ordinary in mainstream hip-hop today. While it is undoubtedly a good listen full of catchy tunes and everyone’s favorite personalities, “Deeper than Rap” does not live up to its ambitious title...
...physicians ghostwriting pharmaceutical studies—another contentious ethical issue—Stossel is not nearly so far from the medical mainstream, saying that honorary authorship, in which doctors simply sign their name to a document written by industry employees, is wrong...
...traditionalists defend Koh's character. Former Senator John Danforth wrote the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he was "puzzled and distressed that various media personalities and interest groups have tried to tarnish" Koh, whom he called "well within the mainstream of American legal thinkers." Olson called Koh "a brilliant scholar and a man of great integrity," and Starr said he "embraces, deeply, a vision of the goodness of America...
...larger question for the GOP is whether in this and other matters it will risk a Faustian bargain with Beck, whose apocalyptic take on U.S. politics generates instant support from an angry, vocal minority but is unsettling to the mainstream. Embracing the populist wing of the party worked in the wake of 9/11, but contributed to the electoral disasters of 2006 and 2008. It may take more time for centrist Americans to sour on big government and higher spending than the GOP's activist right wing would like, but true conservatives are patient...