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...Athletic Association rules.”The article stated that current assistant coach Kenny Blakeney had recruited Norfolk, Va. basketball player Keith Wright and Washington, D.C. star Max Kenyi to attend Harvard prior to being hired to Amaker’s staff. According to the article, Blakeney participated in pickup basketball games with both players last summer before he was hired by the Crimson on July 2, 2007 and recruiting for an institution by a person not employed by the school is considered a violation of NCAA rules. Both players have committed to attend Harvard next year, and the Times...
...event which, at the very least, sure beat deciphering scenes from “0” with your English 120 TF. The theme of the show was “Courses of True Love: Comic and Tragedy,” and even Shakespeare novices could appreciate the Elizabethan pickup lines. FM suggests that the next time you’re at the Delphic, try quoting Benedict (Samuel L. Linden ’10) from Much Ado About Nothing to get some action: “The world must be peopled!” Obviously Harvard students need some help...
...Saturday and nearly noon in Bidor, Malaysia, a small rural town about 160 km north of the nation?s capital, Kuala Lumpur. The coffee shops are filling up with people, mostly rubber and oil palm farmers, many of whom roar into town in new Toyota and Ford pickup trucks. These small farmers are in a jolly mood. With commodities prices at highs not seen in generations, many are prospering to a degree that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The incomes of small landowners almost tripled between 2004 and 2007, according to government data. Some farmers...
...called massive rallies in town centers; these days she reaches out through small gatherings in private courtyards, repeating her speeches as many as five times a day. Between rallies she drives in a convoy of SUVs, flanked by security guards brandishing guns decorated with stickers of her face. A pickup with speakers affixed to the roof blasts a recording of Bhutto's last speech, the one she gave at an election rally just minutes before she was killed...
...There are few rinks in inner cities, and where there are facilities, you have to pay for ice time ? often at very odd morning and evening hours. And unless you live by a frozen Saskatchewan pond, you can't just round up your buddies for a pickup game. Between equipment, travel to rinks, and ice fees, hockey is also prohibitively expensive for many urban families. "How are you going to convince parents to pay $6,000 so their kids can play hockey?" asks Coleman. The NHL could invest more money to subsidize these costs for potential players, but with...