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...recruited athletes or their non-athlete classmates to pretend they don’t know about the very different ways they arrived at Harvard. If Lewis wants these two groups to respect each other, he must reckon with the College’s own role in fostering, through its parallel admissions tracks, a climate in which athletes and non-athletes often do not think of one another as genuine peers. It is those admissions practices, far more than any lingering fondness for 19th-century British notions about amateurism, which perpetuate the unfortunate divide between athletes and non-athletes at Harvard...
...Perhaps the parallel to pornography is instructive. The ability to download and view dirty pictures in the privacy of your own home prompted the triple-X expansion of triple-X businesses. Cultural conservatives regularly bemoan the Internet's ability to "normalize" such previously hidden behaviors as polyamory - you may be the only bisexual group-love aficianado in Omaha, but thanks to AOL, you can find more of them in Kansas City...
...After waging a decade-old war against the Nepali state that has taken about 13,000 lives, the Maoists now control large areas of the nation, where they run a parallel state, collecting taxes, building roads and enforcing their rule with brutality. Upon striking a deal with Nepal's political parties, the Maoists promised not to attack the Kathmandu valley during the protests, although their attacks continued elsewhere - they have killed more than half a dozen policemen and soldiers since the protests began. Most observers believe that the Maoists also played a huge, although mostly hidden, role in making...
...undergrads on campus and alumni all over the world. It could even open lucrative new revenue streams—possibly even subsidizing the program itself—if we sell access to the database a la iTunes. Regardless of the means chosen, the ends would be to create a parallel endowment not measured in dollars in foreign investment funds, but in our professors’ wealth of knowledge. And we might even be able to trace our next Frost’s inspiration right to the source: that early Tuesday morning lecture by Münsterberg that rocked his world...
...house that they completed last year has three bedrooms, 2½ baths and an open-plan kitchen-dining-living area with a cathedral ceiling. It also has a pair of stepped roofs aligned in parallel curves, each serving a different environmental purpose. The lower roof is covered in solar panels. The notoriously cloudy coast of Oregon might not seem like the ideal place to draw power from the sun, but because of a combination of serious insulation with sophisticated systems for generating heat and storing it in geothermal wells?basically warm holes in the ground?over the course of a year...