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...tapes, given to TIME, a voice identified as that of one of Japan's highest-ranking sumo officials says, "Match rigging is a rationale to skip training and daily practice and sacrifices the fundamental nature of sumo. And when this is out in the public, it will threaten the existence of the Japan Sumo Association." Later the official directly addresses the wrestlers: "You wrestlers have a look on your face that says, 'What's the problem? This has been around for a long time.' But at some point, we need to put an end to this." Itai's allegations...
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, the chair of Harvard's Department of Afro-American Studies, is a Yale graduate and credits the university with shaping his views on the intersection of race and society...
...type of person who closely reads every word, highlighting in 10 different colors, I don't see how you can take a full course load and still have a life," Isbell says. "If you're willing to skim--and in some cases skip--the reading, it's manageable...
...Tony and other people threatened and harassed, and people need a place to come and talk about that." Studies show that gay and lesbian youth are seven times as likely as straight kids to be threatened or injured by a weapon at school and five times as likely to skip school because they feel unsafe...
Only a tiny number of students get that much sleep on a regular basis. The problem is compounded when students skip meals to catch extra time...