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...department. For a school that has long been held up as striking an excellent balance between athletics and academics while avoiding the transgressions that have often marred programs at other big-time schools, this attention is new and exceptionally disappointing. Duke teams have often been held up as a model of how college athletics should be; an academically great institution fielding teams from which most players graduate and few, if any, get into legal trouble.So it came as a tremendous shock to most people in the athletic community when three Duke lacrosse players were accused of raping...
...students hope that Broadmoor’s plan, which they helped draft over the course of the week, will provide a model for other areas in need of brainpower and guidance...
...Take the case of Isabel Yahya, who posed for a photomontage by Indonesian artist Davy Linggar in September. In the painting, the model, 30, is discreetly nude. An angry mob from the Islamic Defenders Front, a vigilante group known for attacking bars and discos, demanded that the work, on display at an indoor exhibition in Jakarta, be taken down and complained to the police. The authorities have charged Yahya with indecency under the criminal code; she faces a potential one year in prison, but the alleged offense would be punishable by up to seven years' jail under the new pornography...
...mean, this prestigious university. It’s just a very good model they don’t have...
...other thing I want to work on is to help Christine in her vision for foster care, foster kids. [Oaks at] Rio Bend [a residence for foster children planned by a DeLay-controlled charity] is not completed yet. We want to complete it, and hopefully it will be a model we can take around the country-around the state and around the country-to show that government can't raise children, that people raise children and we have a way of giving foster children, abused and neglected children a safe, permanent home...