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Never one to grandstand on the court or explode verbally off of it, Pankau plays professionally, practices methodically and respects his teammates. In an age of media-seeking superstars and flamboyant prima donnas, Pankau is a refreshing break from the ordinary--he prefers to do his job away from the glare of the spotlight...
...These attitudes are certainly at odds with the prima donna image that some people hold of young musicians, and Castelli realizes this. "I like to hope that I defy some of the negative aspects of being young and being a performer. I think trying to do a lot of different things is important in keeping perspective...
...relentless, attacking style that puts opponents in a vise until they crack. It's a far cry from the men's World Cup, where teams often dam the goalmouth with defenders and play dull, negative, just-don't-lose-it soccer. Nor do the ladies act like the prima-donna strikers who turn the slightest foul into a scene from Tosca. And, blessedly, there is little danger of the field being overrun by beer-sotted English hooligans or other so-called fans. Pack a lunch. Bring the kids...
Many of the bill's supporters have decried the prima facie dismissal of these ostensible 'cadet concerns," but unfortunately for them, a nondiscrimination policy is by definition a prima facie dismissal of organizations who discriminate. Despite any good intentions, the resolution sets a dangerous precedent by suggesting that the University should suspend its nondiscrimination policy when in the "national interest" or when the "admirable" aspects of an organization outweigh its bigoted ones. This precedent hurts all students the policy protects, whether women, the disabled or people of color. Institutional decision cannot rely on vague criteria that ask us to decide...
...only cure for bad science is more science, and the story of human evolution has been evolving pretty rapidly itself. There were always plenty of prima facie reasons to doubt the Mr. and Mrs. Man-the-Hunter version of our collective biography, such as the little matter of size, or, in science-speak, "sexual dimorphism." If men and women evolved so differently, then why aren't men a whole lot bigger than they are? In fact, humans display a smaller size disparity between the sexes than do many of our ape cousins--suggesting (though not proving) that early...