Word: matters
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...middle of January, the Crimson swept a home series against Clarkson and St. Lawrence. But playing these teams on the road is a different matter. Clarkson, in particular, is a much stronger team at home...
...here's the catch: every swimmer in the final heat scores more points than the top swimmer in the consolation final, no matter what the times in the evening. The key to winning Easterns is to place as many of your swimmers into the top 16, preferably the top eight. Nobody else can earn points...
More troubling than the vast scope of Lee's subject matter are his stylistic vacillations. At times, Daze is a Scorsese-type realistic exploration of Black life. Then Lee will abruptly change gears from a conflict scene a la Scorsese's Mean Streets into jazzy, upbeat musical numbers that could have been lifted from Little Shop of Horrors...
...still wrong," Thompson said. "I don't care who talked about it or how much time there was that day. The coach can't advocate that responsibility. It doesn't matter if Meredith agreed to it. I don't think a coach should ever advocate running a kid five times...
Thank you for this opportunity to correct the impression your article may have given readers that I regard this survey as a laughing matter. In fact, I think the debate and further studies the Whitla report should spark will promote a long overdue investigation of the advantages of test preparation. I look forward to seeing the actual survey when it is released next month and to clarification on some of its findings. (The Globe article, for example, notes that the study's respondents included 69 percent who did not take coaching and 14 percent who did. This leaves a healthy...