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Beyond Steve Moore and Bala, there is not a lot of proven senior talent, and three of them are all forwards...
...accept any. Out of about 1,000 applicants this year, Barge says, the freshman was the only black. Because the sorority uses campus facilities, it is subject to the federal law that prohibits racial discrimination in higher education. But disciplinary action can be taken only if the sorority is proven to discriminate overtly. Having no black members is not considered proof...
...political process, the impetus to get involved is sharply diminished. Of course, in defense of politicians - gasp! - there's a classic chicken-and-egg conundrum here: Do young voters ignore politicians because politicians ignore them, or do politicians keep their distance from young voters because they've proven themselves an uninterested voting bloc whose concerns are not easily addressed in a 10-second sound bite...
...therefore am running for president as a scientist to put our government back on firm principles of knowledge and proven solutions...
...Unlike a proven act, however, we had no recorded "sound" to live up to or break away from. We were in the process of inventing that sound, and we had handed that job, in part, over to Matthew. However, if giving up some creative control meant adding experience to our debut, it was a trade I was eager to make. And at the risk of sounding unpatriotic, I'll add that I was more willing to trust to a man of British roots. Think George Martin with the Beatles. (Well, okay, the Beatles themselves were British.) Think London, underground...