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...framing of the issues and the related questions is meant to define a starting place, not an end point, for the work of the task force. I take it for granted that the talent, experience, and creativity represented in the membership of the committee will enrich both the framing of the issues and the conceptualization of answers and specific recommendations. It is my hope that the task force will complete the bulk of its work during the 2007-08 academic year, with a final report to be submitted by the early fall...
...While thoroughbred ownership in Australia and the U.K. is increasingly within reach of commoners, the Hong Kong racing scene is dominated by the rich and connected. Those who want a piece of the action must first be a member of the Jockey Club - joining fees start at $30,000. Membership qualifies you to enter a Byzantine annual lottery in which members compete for roughly 300 spots that give them the right to purchase a horse and have it stabled in the Jockey Club's ritzy training facilities. This is how Lo, the Hong Kong fashion executive, became an owner...
...accusation is as inaccurate as it is manipulative: A study at Seton Hall University found that only eight percent of the Guantanamo detainees were Al Qaeda fighters, and only 30 percent were determined to be Al Qaeda members—and that’s using a definition of membership that is broad enough to include anyone who ever talked to someone from Al Qaeda. The same study also found that the majority of detainees were, at most, found to be “associated with” organizations that themselves have only speculative ties to Al Qaeda. So desperate...
...many of the players who have been through horrific accidents, membership in the North American organization or its British-based counterpart, the Society of One-Armed Golfers, is therapeutic. "You don't feel like you're on the outside," says Lusk, whose accident left him very depressed. "You come here, hell, everyone has arms missing. It's rehab as much as anything else...
...most important formative years. Such an antique administrator telling real, live undergraduates that they can’t use Harvard’s money to pay for other, underage, undergraduates’ alcohol is flabbergasting. “Perhaps this might be acceptable in other less principled societies, where membership does not require a commitment to logic and reason in the spirit of open inquiry,” the UC Executive posits in its memorandum. “In our University community the standard is higher; we demand decision through discussion, and finality through debate.”Imagine...