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Boxing needs something to rescue it from years of disorganization. There are now 17 weight divisions, none with a unified champ among the sport's four sanctioning bodies. Scandalous match decisions have worn out boxing's aging base and turned off younger fans. Though the sport's migration to pay-per-view television has enriched fighters, it has cut off the sport's access to a broader audience...
Suddenly it wasn't only the Indians who had to deal with Smith, but also the Virginia Co. investors who funded Jamestown and were impertinent enough to expect a return. Forget it, Smith wrote his London underwriters. There was no sense digging for gold where nature had left none, he scoffed, nor would the rock-strewn James River ever guide their wind-driven square-riggers on some long-dreamed-of shortcut to China. Disenchanted investors, he concluded, were free to join him in Jamestown, where their odds of surviving were about...
...Havana? Even Mumbai sounds better than Manila," says Filipino conceptual artist Yason Banal over coffee in Quezon City. There isn't an immediate answer. The Third World cities he lists aren't immune to the challenges that beset the Philippine capital: all grapple with congestion, crime and corruption, and none escape the banes of poverty, heat, seediness or pollution. So perhaps it's a question of marketing. Tourists are drawn to destinations with double-pronged, p.r.-friendly pegs-saris and spices for Mumbai, cigars and salsa for Havana, markets and temples for Bangkok. Manila, with its bewildering collision of Spanish...
...about lengthening the school day and/or school year, so that kids who are behind can get more attention and so that all U.S. students get at least as much instructional time as do kids in competing nations. None of this will be easy. With their long history of support from teachers' unions, Democrats have been reluctant to criticize or demand more from the profession. Republicans, meanwhile, tend to oppose any movement toward national standards...
...golfers less sure of themselves than would have been ideal, owing to the short spring season and the exceptional scarcity of good practice time that came as a result of the stormy late winter and early spring. Though some facets of their games showed their potential for success, none of Harvard’s golfers mustered a solid enough all-around performance to break into the top five, with the Crimson’s lowest-scoring golfer, sophomore and defending Ivy League champion Emily Balmert, coming in seventh with a combined score of 238 (78-80-80). That performance...