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Cornell's 64-member Board of Trustees has gathered at Cornell this weekend for one of their four meetings of the year. Apparently portions of their meetings are open to the public? The Harvard Corporation, on the other hand, has just seven members who meet privately once a month...
...illustrious British prize's first 40 years. Not content with simply writing, Rushdie, who is a master conversationalist, has also acted in movies, and made a cameo in Bridget Jones's Diary. In 1999, he had an operation on tendons in his face to enable him to better open his eyes, perhaps to the detriment of his ravishing look of manly semi-consciousness. But his sharply angled eyebrows and goatee still create an image of a pensive rogue...
Even in the darkest of times this nation has seen, it has always sought a brighter horizon. Think about it. In the middle of the Civil War, President Lincoln designated a system of land grant colleges, including MIT, which helped open the doors of higher education to millions of people. A year -- a full year before the end of World War II, President Roosevelt signed the GI Bill which helped unleash a wave of strong and broadly shared economic growth. And after the Soviet launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, the United States went about...
...practice, not a game. Still, if you can’t wait another month to get your hoops fix, it should be just the answer to your prayers. Men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker will be directing a coaching clinic all day tomorrow that is open for all students to attend...
...that outburst seemed to those who know and love Maradona as just another instance of typical bravado, it could backfire badly. The barrage of insults he hurled at journalists was televised, prompting world soccer's governing body FIFA to open an inquiry that could result in him being suspended from coaching the team for up to five games - potentially a death blow to Maradona's hopes of keeping his job for the World...