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...however, Amaker is facing questions about his staff’s recruiting tactics and academic priorities after signing the most highly touted recruiting class in Ivy League history.On Saturday, The New York Times reported that the Harvard basketball coaching staff has “adopted aggressive recruiting tactics that skirt or, in some cases, may even violate National Collegiate Athletic Association rules.”The article stated that current assistant coach Kenny Blakeney had recruited Norfolk, Va. basketball player Keith Wright and Washington, D.C. star Max Kenyi to attend Harvard prior to being hired to Amaker?...
...huge screen on the Caesars Palace stage reveals a Nevada billboard bearing a poster of Bette Midler. She's posed in a cute blue dress with a short skirt that shows off her indestructibly fabulous gams; her smile is so electric it could light every casino on the Strip. A donkey wanders past, seemingly unimpressed, as, in the distance, a storm gathers strength. It morphs into a tornado, sending croupiers and chorines whizzing across the skyscape like Miss Gulch over Kansas. The door to an airborne Port-A-Potty swings open and an Elvis impersonator falls out. Now the video...
...United States, racism is the big elephant in the middle of the room. No one wants to acknowledge its existence. People skirt around the elephant to avoid bumping a trunk or treading on a large toenail. But, despite their game of pretending otherwise, its existence threatens to bring the whole building down. However, at other times, a person knocks down a painting or puts a hole in the plaster but blames it on the elephant. This is called playing the race card. Richard Thompson Ford’s new book, “The Race Card: How Bluffing about Bias...
...annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals production is “Fable Attraction,” which opens on February 15th at the New College Theatre. The play features all the best elements of theatre: mythical creatures, a magical world, and cross-dressing undergrads. The Roving Reporter put on his best skirt and went to go find out more.David J. Andersson ’09RR: Who do you play in “Fable Attraction”?DA: I play the sexy unicorn. Her name is Peggy Seuss, but she’s not a Pegasus. She makes that very clear...
...enormous market for inexpensive clothing. Nicaraguan entrepreneurs often travel to Miami to buy used clothing in bulk, and ship it back home to sell for a hefty profit. According to an investigation by Nicaraguan economist Alejandro Arauz, most such apparel is imported into Nicaragua as "donations" to skirt commercial taxes, then resold for a 200 percent profit. To further cut costs, the used clothing purchased in the U.S. is bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, the garments picked over and left behind at Goodwill and then sold by the bale at a clearance price of 10-15 cents a pound...