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...satisfying the constraint that its athletic teams have the best academic credentials within their sport. Ivy rules additionally ensure that the mean Academic Index of Harvard’s athletic program will be within one standard deviation of the student body and that all student-athletes will meet a minimum Academic Index standard. Harvard athletic programs such as women’s hockey, which has achieved No. 1 national rankings in five of its last 10 seasons despite the Academic Index constraints, have served as far better representatives of the University than any form of mediocrity...
This forlorn, tragicomic event appears in an extraordinary new book called Human Smoke (Simon & Schuster; 566 pages), an experiment in retelling the story of World War II using only brief anecdotes and snippets of primary sources--quotations, diaries, speeches, newspaper articles--placed in chronological order with a minimum of historical commentary. Human Smoke begins, for example, with a remark made by Alfred Nobel in August 1892: "On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops." The dramatic irony is rich...
...Will the NBA attempt to push back the minimum age to 20 [from 19] when the collective-bargaining agreement expires in 2011? -Kirk Henderson, WashingtonYes, we will. We think [raising the entry age to 19] has been very constructive...
...Times suggested that Ben-Eze had not yet attained the minimum score on the Academic Index, the formula used to determine a high-school athlete’s Ivy League eligibility...
...question have been admitted yet. Second, while the players being wooed may represent a lowering of Harvard’s traditional standards, Harvard could still easily end up with the highest average academic index in the league. Finally, only one of the recruited players does not fulfill the minimum requirement for Ivy League athletes as of now, and he did not receive a likely letter. There is no indication that Amaker intends to break any of the rules of the Ivy League. Though targeting players with moderately lower grades and SAT scores seems an unfortunate sacrifice, we hope that Amaker?...