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...compromise academic standards to admit those athletes” who will bring home a trophy. College football playoffs are a particular concern because the money and prioritization inherent in pursuing excellence in this most glamorous of sports can easily compromise a school’s mission. In this respect specifically, football differs from the other 40 sports offered at Harvard: The money spent and made in this billion-dollar business, together with the number of athletes who must be recruited to field a team (last season’s roster exceeded 100 players), form a set of strains...
...Russert reminded viewers of Tuesday’s Democratic debate, from a sermon by the Senator’s pastor back home, an alleged anti-Semite with an admiration for Louis Farrakhan. And it is a phrase that starry-eyed Obama supporters like to think describes their mission...
...Colombia eradicate drug cultivation and trafficking - an effort that is largely regarded a failure. Instead, the billions have not-so-subtly been employed to help the Colombian military beat back the fierce Marxist guerrilla army known as the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC, and the success of that mission was underscored Saturday by the stunning news from Bogota that the army, using Plan Colombia-funded communications technology, had found and killed the FARC's No. 2 leader and spokesman, Raul Reyes, in an air raid and gun battle...
...assessed a possible response to malnutrition in refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly known as Zare. "We weren't already based in the country, so it was hard for us to assess the situation," Giron says. Aware of its limits, CARE opted out of the mission...
Erykah Badu has a mission: “freeing the slaves and the slave masters.” Her fourth album, “New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)” is loaded with socio-political jibes designed to instigate and agitate its audience. If you’re looking for the sugary sentimentality with which Badu sang “Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop),” you should probably steer clear of everything but the final track and lead single “Honey.” The 11-song...