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...half off from school to devote herself fully to her Olympic dream.“We’ve been supporting [her Olympic] quest over the last three years while she’s been at Harvard,” Brand said. “It was obvious that she needed the time to do this without the pressures of schooling.”While still a member of the Crimson, Cross took home the individual NCAA Fencing Title in women’s foil in 2005 and helped Harvard win the NCAA Team Championship in 2006.Cross...
...mother we have heard so little about until now - to help quell the tide of white America's concern over where his true loyalties lie, in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright controversy. The attempt to portray Obama as a man made in his mother's image was painfully obvious. How simple and foolish TIME must think its readers are to put out such a story right before a primary that could assure Obama the Democratic presidential nomination. Why has Obama's mother suddenly become important? I'm sure the voters who aren't swayed by emotion know the answer...
...good humor in the face of death. Influence like that is a form of power, but power is not always influence. The sheer hard power of a Hu Jintao or a Vladimir Putin can put them on the list, but their influence can be different from what seems most obvious. For example, Henry Kissinger writes that Hu's lasting influence may be as much about achieving a harmonious society in China as achieving territorial integrity...
...plenty of uncontroversial tweaks that can yield significant impact. The conversion of a periodicals room to a café in Lamont Library has probably done more to change the day-to-day structure of student life than all of the policy changes in the last five years combined. Simple, obvious improvements in commonly used spaces can have a broad effect on the many everyday activities whose patterns depend on these spaces...
...Fair enough. But is it really too much to ask athletes to make an effort to become informed, or to form an opinion on the controversies that will inevitably envelope the Beijing Games? "It seems like such an obvious answer to me," says Miranda. "Being part of the conversation doesn't cost a whole lot." Olympic athletes do have some spare time for a little reading, you know. "All young individuals should be aware of the situation, the circumstances in which they are becoming involved in," says John Carlos, the 1968 Olympic bronze-medalist whose Black Power salute...