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This proposed change comes months after a similar reduction in the number of recruit admissions for the New England Small College Athletic Conference, which includes Amherst, Williams and Bowdoin. The reduction comes within a year of the publication of The Game of Life, a book by James L. Shulman and former Princeton President William G. Bowen, who claim that athletes enjoy a substantial advantage in admissions beyond other targeted groups...
After producing just one player in the past two years who has averaged ten minutes per game, the Harvard men’s basketball program has officially landed its most highly-touted recruit since Dan Clemente...
...more meritocratic than any of its Ivy League rivals, and so it admits a far more talented incoming class every year. Harvard students may surpass Stanford students in academic and extracurricular achievement. However, Stanford, by being sensibly meritocratic in all areas of admission, absolutely dominates Harvard by attempting to recruit the very best athletes in nearly every sport...
Canada won the game largely due to the timeliness of its scoring. Canadian forward Cherie Piper, the last player added to the team and a Dartmouth recruit, made the play that set up the first Canadian goal in the game’s first two minutes. Jayna Hefford scored Canada’s third goal on a breakaway with just a second left in the second period...
...focus has been almost exclusively on pressuring Yasser Arafat to act against terrorism. But the Bush team's efforts - like Israel PM Ariel Sharon's - have failed to stop a dramatic escalation of violence of late. And that's causing consternation among the Arab allies Washington wants to recruit for a war to topple Saddam Hussein. Other parties mediating the conflict, including Israeli peacemakers such as foreign minister Shimon Peres, have long emphasized that progress depends on linking cease-fire efforts to negotiations over Palestinian statehood. The emergence of the Saudi initiative offers Washington a stalking horse, potentially allowing...