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While the most recent edition of the University of Central Florida’s Racial and Gender Report Card (2005) estimates that 20.6 percent of NCAA Division I scholarship athletes are black, Harvard’s recruited athletes—who cannot receive scholarships as per the rules of the Ivy League—do not come close to such a percentage...
...land where the good songs, and the good shows, go. Every year Encores! mounts three pieces at five performances each, filling the gigantic old theater's 2,750 seats with knowledgeable enthusiasts of the old style, Encores! has brought classic musicals back to life in productions that match meticulous scholarship with showstopping verve. The books of these venerable shows may be on the creaky side, but the tunes in them still sing. Join in a chorus of "Where or When," anybody...
...some veterans, the transition to becoming a world-class athlete is fast. Take, for example, Travis Greene, 25. Greene's legs once carried him to a sprinting record in high school and a track and field scholarship to Boise State University. But in December 2005, three months into his third rotation in Iraq, the Marine Corporal lost both his legs above the knee to an IED explosion while trying to rescue other Marines...
...Yard’s landscape even presents those bound to Lamont with a gilded alternative: Widener, the venerable elder statesman of Harvard’s many libraries and an ideal location for scholarship of all sorts. Of course, its size inhibits it from keeping its neighbor’s bordello hours, but that’s part of the charm. Would you rather read in an elegant memorial to the Titanic or in a concrete Crock-Pot named for a man who called Benito Mussolini “a very upstanding chap...
...referring to a prize she won for a story on a topic she covered in the class.And coming from studies in small concentrations such as women, gender and sexuality, classics, religion, and Germanic languages and literature, three undergraduates earned a trip across the Atlantic as recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship this year. Often responsible for soothing the fears of both parents and students alike about life after studying Latin and Greek, Assistant Professor of the Classics David F. Elmer ’98 says Classics concentrators, among others, go on to a full range of professional and academic careers...