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College presidents are a fairly unflappable lot, but nothing gets their goat quite like the issue of rankings. Take a complex institution, crunch it down into a single number, and the adjectives start flying: "Silly." "Snotty." "Scandalous." Echoing many of his peers, Robert Weisbuch, president of Drew University, blames the rank-ordering of diverse schools for much of the current college-admissions frenzy. "It's almost as though we've created a monster," he says. And yet, despite years of vituperation, most schools keep dutifully filling out the surveys that make these ratings possible...
...just as people sometimes die - or are killed - for religion, the noblest of sports now seems to have claimed a victim of its own. Last Sunday, Pakistan's coach, the 58-year-old Englishman Bob Woolmer, was found dead in his Jamaica hotel room hours after his highly ranked team had been eliminated from cricket's World Cup by rank outsiders Ireland...
Kidder, a seasoned veteran at second base, already knows what to work for. She will return to her rank as captain again this season, and has faith in her new teammates...
Despite Harvard’s tumble in the U.S. News standings, there is at least one category where our school still reigns supreme. Along with Dartmouth, Williams and Stanford, Harvard was placed in the top bracket when the Sustainable Endowments Institute ranked the environmental practices of the 100 American universities with the largest endowments. The universities were evaluated on the energy efficiency of their campus operations and on the environmental ethics of their investment practices. The report gave Quadlings something to be proud of: shuttles that run on biodiesel were cited as a strength of Harvard’s campus...
...thrilled to be playing the national champions.” Maryland will be an extremely tough matchup defensively for the Crimson—all five Terrapin starters are averaging double figures, and the team’s 82.6 points per game rank second nationally in scoring offense. Junior center Crystal Langhorne leads the team in points and rebounds, while sophomore guard Kristi Tolliver has a deadly touch from outside. “It’s a little intimidating,” co-captain Christiana Lackner said of playing the defending champions. “But we work just...