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...Tournament in Las Vegas, both Meccas on any high school star’s pilgrimage to the NBA when Vaccaro was still running them.To players, Vaccaro has been a kind of sage, a wise uncle who has advised and assisted the likes of Kobe, LeBron, and most recently mega-prospect O.J. Mayo. Vaccaro has also made many of those under his tutelage very wealthy, whether by signing them to shoe deals or encouraging them to take the jump from high school straight to the NBA or both.But while Vaccaro has plenty of admirers, he has no shortage of critics either...
...There is a stigma associated with HIV because it gives way to a terrible disease that kills people. While having HIV is not something one should be ashamed of, it is not a source of pride either. There is nothing about HIV/AIDS to be positive about, aside from the prospect of a cure or accessible drugs. I, for one, am glad—if not proud—that I do not carry HIV. This does not mean that I do not feel sorry for those who are infected by the terrible disease—it just means that...
...system after the credit squeeze nudged up the rates banks were charging each other to borrow. The longer those rates remain high, the more mortgage providers will be forced to pass on the costs to homeowners, increasing the chances of a consumer spending slowdown and a weakening economy. That prospect - and the dramatic half percentage point cut to 4.75% by the U.S. Federal Reserve to its key federal funds rate, its first cut in four years - will heap pressure on the Bank of England to reduce U.K. rates, now at 5.75%, before the end of the year. A big enough...
...Faust highlighted the prospect of expanding the University’s financial aid programs in her letter to the Harvard community yesterday, writing that there is “much more still to do...not just in the College but across the schools...
...would stop an Arctic meltdown, which means the Arctic, like nowhere else on Earth, is a place where efforts to mitigate global warming have yielded to full-bore adaptation to its impact. That process is freighted with irony. With gas and oil prices near historic highs and with scant prospect of any decrease in world demand for energy, it is only prudent to get a sense of what resources lie below the newly accessible sea. But there is something paradoxical about seeking in the Arctic the very carbon fuels that are melting the northern ice. "The rush to exploit Arctic...