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Brand's innovation is simple yet powerful: while athletic eligibility rules have long placed a burden on students to maintain minimum academic performance, this is the first time that teams would be penalized for lapses. The new rules have the potential to change the dynamics of college sports, starting as early as next year. "It's going to force our coaches to take a look at the type of people they have in their program, and I think it will change how you recruit coaches," says University of Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart. "We don't want coaches who want...
...official news agency, NPC delegates will spend the week discussing topics like poverty alleviation, food safety and better conditions for workers. And last Saturday, Premier Wen Jiabao announced that the country would abolish taxes on farmers next year, two years ahead of schedule. "The Communist Party wants to maintain its monopoly on power," says Joseph Cheng, a political scientist at City University of Hong Kong, "But it is sophisticated and understands that it needs to address social grievances by making the cadres more responsive, more competent...
...focal point for dissent that Tung has become, and it would show that China's leaders are responsive to public opinion in Hong Kong. Both Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao have tried to convey the image of a kinder, gentler leadership that cares for the masses, even as they maintain a tight grip on power. During the SARS epidemic, for example, Wen sacked China's Health Minister for underplaying the scale of the crisis, and impressed Hong Kongers with his apparent warmth and sincerity by visiting the home of a family stricken by the disease...
...months, and then may start slapping airlines with a surcharge of up to $300 a flight for those found to be clogging the system ?We don't have a delay problem now,? says Logan director Tom Kinton, ?but we know some action may need to be taken to maintain an airport system that is efficient and serves our customers...
...Durantaye was even closer in age to his students at Cornell, where he says it was difficult to maintain a professional boundary. “You have to fight that temptation and be a little colder, a little sterner than you might otherwise be,” says de la Durantaye...