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...risks of overcoaching apply to older players, too, Chappell argues. In 1988, Ian Frazer was 22 when he became one of the first inductees into the Adelaide-based Cricket Academy, where the aim was to prepare the country's most promising talent for international competition. Frazer says he began his one-year stint "as someone who loved the game . . . Twenty months later I loathed it." What happened? The key to developing cricketers, Frazer says, is to give them "the right exposure at the right time." He'd reached a stage where he needed advice about touring and "self-management." What...
Such a disappointing result is the rather unsurprising product of a one-year process conducted behind closed doors and largely driven by the narrow-minded agenda of a University President who, to judge by his repetitive gene-chromosome rhetoric, seems intent on turning Harvard into his alma mater, MIT. (Oddly enough, the sciences may well lose the most under the proposed revisions: a delayed concentration decision, “mandatory” study abroad and decreased field-of-study requirements will do no favors for undergraduate science concentrators.) Lawrence H. Summers—whose comments on undergraduate education at last...
...fact that it was only a one-year process made things inherently a bit rushed,” he said. “I know there are some Faculty members and students who are frustrated about that...
Rogers, who borrowed heavily to attend the one-year program, said she calculated she would need to earn $80,000 a year to repay her student loans...
...Greenspan's view, this peace of mind simply comes at too high a price. Look at today's mortgage rates: the average 30-year fixed rate is 5.7% vs. just 3.7% for the average one-year adjustable-rate mortgage, or ARM, which resets every year. On a $200,000 loan, the fixed rate costs $1,160 a month, while the ARM costs just $921 a month for the first year. What happens after that is where it gets interesting. Within two years the ARM could rise as much as 4 percentage points, bringing the monthly payment to $1,407. Most...