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...Heisman, the Hobey Baker, and the Naismith all pale in comparison. In last year’s storybook season, one prestigious medal eluded the decorated Harvard fencing team: the Iron Man, the oldest consistently awarded trophy in collegiate history, bestowed upon the top foil squad at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association (IFA) Championships each winter. At Saturday’s edition in Lawrenceville, N.J., the squad checked off its final to-do item with a men’s foil victory and added wins in the combined men’s and women’s, the women?...
...graduating in 2002, she became the first player of Asian descent to play for the U.S. National Team at the Olympics in Salt Lake City, where her team took home the silver. She then went on to star at Harvard, until the national squad called again for its bronze medal showing at the 2006 Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. This season, Chu is back with the Crimson, capping off the farewell tour of her illustrious collegiate career, in which her 284 career points have made her the all-time leading scorer in NCAA history. Harbec, on the other hand, hails...
...contrast seems stark. Tommy Franks, the Army general who as chief of Central Command scuttled Anthony Zinni's more robust war plan and agreed with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that invasion-lite was the way to go, got the Presidential Medal of Freedom. So did former CIA chief George ("Slam Dunk") Tenet and L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer, who as Iraqi viceroy fired the entire Iraqi army, a move now widely seen as laying the groundwork for a sustained insurgency...
Unfortunately, in their heavy-handed approach, school librarians have subverted the true purpose of censorship and undermined the judgment of the Newbery Medal committee. Censorship is supposed to protect children from being corrupted by substandard portrayal of important topics and issues. It is not intended to keep children ignorant of the adult world, but to ensure that children learn about adult issues in the correct manner. With the amount of improper and faulty information around, censorship serves a vital role in society, but this case is a clear example of its abuse...
Furthermore, such action defies a judgment by those experienced in dealing with children’s literature—the Newbery Medal committee. Their opinion should have more weight than those of librarians, yet the latter are clearly giving themselves the benefit of the doubt...