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...seven years, as a loyal Yankee fan in Cambridge, I have passively tolerated the rampant Red Sox boosterism of my university newspaper, but the April 29 commentary of Nikki B. Usher ’03 pushed me over the edge (Comment, “Confessions of a Former Yankee?...
While fans follow America’s favorite, and most wholesome, pastime, its players have been consumed by something altogether more sinister. Performance enhancing drug use, from steroids to amphetamines, is rampant among baseball players. Although no one knows exact figures of player drug us, what is certain is that Major League Baseball remains one of the few major American sports that does not randomly drug test its players for steroids and amphetamines...
What makes the situation all the more tragic is that scholars had warned the Department of Defense (DOD) in January that something like this might happen. The organized looting of ancient artifacts has been rampant in Iraq ever since U.N. sanctions choked off the country's legal streams of revenue following the 1991 Gulf War. "We wanted to make them aware of the importance of Mesopotamia and familiarize them with important sites," says McGuire Gibson, an archaeologist at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, who participated in the talks. He says he gave DOD officials a list of critical...
Twenty years after the Reagan administration discovered that ours is “a nation at risk” and that our educational system is rampant with inequality, the potent political rhetoric of “standards-based” reform dominates the important debate regarding education reform. In order to leave no child behind, government establishes what it calls high standards, aligns curriculum and pedagogy with these so-called standards, tests students to see if they meet the standards, and holds students, teachers, and schools accountable for test results. The logic is clear, but the premise is false...
...accusations hurled at the Coalition’s military planners are in many ways more disgusting than the rampant looting of Iraq’s cultural legacy, for they reveal the callousness of the “cultured” toward human suffering. Donny George, the head of the National Archaeological Museum in Baghdad, told reporters that the US troops’ failure to protect artifacts was “the crime of the century because it is really affecting the heritage of mankind...