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...scramble to stop their star players and coach from signing lucrative contracts with talent-hungry European teams, South African officials on Wednesday scrapped a long-held commitment to racial quotas for their national sports teams. That plan was one of the cornerstones of President Thabo Mbeki's push to integrate sports in a sports-crazed nation, and help close the huge racial schisms left by decades of apartheid. "Quotas are out," the sports minister Makhenkesi Stofile said in a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday attempting to explain the reversal. "We are not going to decide who must be on the team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Backtracks on Quotas | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...coach White and some of his players, the government's decision to drop racial quotas has came too late. The sports minister Stofile said the new government plan would be to develop star black rugby players. That might require huge financial resources, however, including rugby training at poor, black-dominated high schools. Such an initiative would surely require years of investment and commitment - and in politics, that's an eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Backtracks on Quotas | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...depressing bet that "quality" - i.e., original scripts - doesn't matter that much to the market. But who's to say they're wrong? Media consumers are deluged with diversions, many of them free. Even the New York Times couldn't get enough subscribers to sustain a paid online-subscription plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Writers' Strike Solve Anything? | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...like two other black students in that setting,” he said. “But in the last two years I have seen the number of black students in my science classes double.” Nelson’s study is a way of planning for important changes in the future, she said. “I think you need to know where you are and where you want to go before you can plan a path,” she said. —Staff writer Noah S. Bloom can be reached at nsbloom@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Noah S. Bloom, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ethnic Disparities Plague Universities | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

...Kessler and Martin to simulate real-game conditions but noted, “I’ll tell you what—Kylie Stephens is competing for that spot as well because she did a heck of a job for us.”“I just plan to work hard to give myself the best opportunity I possibly can,” Stephens says.All three goalies find themselves in a fortunate spot this year, as Harvard’s new goalie coach, Sara DeCosta, brings an Olympic gold medal and years of goaltending experience to the bench...

Author: By Rebecca A. Compton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HOCKEY PREVIEW 2007-08: Triple Threat | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

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