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Harvard has struggled against its reputation in the attempt to recruit talent strong enough to consistently challenge tradition-rich Penn and Princeton for the Ivy League title. Ten years ago, however, coach Frank Sullivan nearly landed a player who would have surely brought several banners to Lavietes Pavilion and helped land Cambridge on the major college basketball...
...Going back to the beginning of the Republic, and Jefferson’s view that virtue and talent were sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, the contribution of education—and especially higher education—to equality of opportunity has been a central concern,” Summers said...
...rating is well-deserved. In his fourth year, Harry participates in the Triwizard Tournament—a sadistic series of tasks to win the Goblet of Fire—taking the viewer along for a terrifying ride including dragons and carnivorous caverns. Along with these visually rich action scenes are moments of awkward adolescent romance, such as the Yule Ball, an event like Eliot Fete on anabolics, replete with a rave-out performance by the paler members of Radiohead and Pulp.Humor keeps this “Potter” chapter from immersion into tonal darkness, much of it emerging...
...already accomplished so much, RZA hopes to challenge the limitation imposed by Samuel L. Jackson’s recent comment that rappers shouldn’t act—Jackson was justifying refusing to appear in 50 Cent’s debut “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” in favor of a movie called (seriously) “Snakes on a Plane.” “I read, I study, I practice,” RZA says. “The Godfather [Jackson] says rappers shouldn?...
...part of this style, the piece de resistance of my collection is an Urban Outfitters shirt which reads “G is for Gangsta.” I’m not ashamed of the irony—this pig-tailed, rosy-cheeked girl would much rather get rich than die tryin’.A few months ago, I faced the hardest of all T-shirt statement tasks—what do you wear to a concert, as you straddle the line between looking like a tool with the band’s tee on and looking like...