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...rest before kicking off conference play with consecutive doubleheaders at Columbia (1-12) and at Penn (7-5) next weekend. Although he acknowledged that traveling to four different schools over this trip will be tough, Crimson coach Joe Walsh said he believed that taking a more simple approach will prevent his team from being overwhelmed by the challenges ahead. “If we try to look ahead at the duration of the trip and take that attitude we won’t play well,” Walsh said. “We need to go down there...
...unintentional racism in 86 minutes to keep Al Sharpton busy for the next century. First-time director Mark Brokaw aspires to contribute to an intelligent dialogue about race, but ends up creating a misguided After School Special. Despite its pedagogical goals, the ridiculous dialogue, shallow characters, and uninteresting plot prevent the film from raising any fruitful questions.The movie is based on the acclaimed play of the same name and was written for the screen by the original playwright, Rebecca Gilman. The play was named one of the best productions of 1999 by Time, but the exasperatingly clichéd film...
...rising birthrate among those 20-something women - sometimes referred to as the "Knocked Up" phenomenon - caught the attention of researchers a few years ago. The numbers were sufficiently alarming that the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, knowing that 7 of 10 pregnancies to single women in their 20s are unplanned, decided to expand its mission to include young women in this vulnerable age group. Says Sarah Brown, CEO of the newly named National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy: "We first started to notice this trend [because] when teen birthrates went down, those for women in their...
...Edward Liddy said he'd asked employees to give half of their bonuses back, and that some had already voluntarily given all of it back. And Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who had signed off on the contractually promised bonuses after concluding that the government had no legal recourse to prevent them from being paid, said earlier this week that he plans to take the money out of the next $30 billion tranche Treasury approved for AIG two weeks ago. (Read "The AIG Bonuses: Getting Mad and Getting Even...
...Eric Rosenbach, a former staff member on the Senate Intelligence Committee and national-security adviser to Senator Chuck Hagel, said there was little evidence to suggest that the interrogation of terrorism suspects under the Bush Administration had led to information that helped prevent attacks on U.S. soil. "At the Intelligence Committee, we tried to test these claims, but the evidence was very, very tenuous," he said...