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Competitive Division I football and basketball programs cannot compete without black athletes. More importantly, stubbornly refusing to change outdated hiring practices for the sole reason of “worry over alumni giving” will be washed away when said football team starts winning. I’m not saying that white coaches can’t recruit black athletes, or vice versa. It’s just that if a school has to wear a “Scarlet R” for racist, not only will the quality of its athletic program diminish, but also the quality...
This has not left McCall much room to maneuver. Raised in Boston as one of six children of a welfare mother, McCall leveraged his personal success story and reputation for rectitude to become the first black man elected to statewide office in New York. As the sole trustee of the state's $105 billion pension fund (up from $56 billion when he took charge in 1993), he has more responsibility for investing pension money than anyone else in the country--and lately that is what has got him into trouble. The New York Post revealed late last month that McCall...
...anyone think that Christians, Muslims and Jews can unite behind any man, when they cannot live in peace under the one true God they all believe in? The search for peace through Abraham will lead only along the path we have already traveled--to disagreements, discord and strife. The sole solution is for people of the three faiths to live together as children of God. George J. Steele Amsterdam...
...misleading to think the current conflict in the Holy Land is a continuation of the mythic struggle between Abraham's sons. There is nothing holy about savage bloodshed that has destroyed generations of innocent lives for the sole purpose of maintaining political power and control of land and water. Makram Talih New Haven, Conn...
...reading, there is a stoner or a singer or a playwright who hasn’t done it either—dumb jocks are not the standard. The Harvard athlete should be praised, because unlike other students who join activities throughout high school and college for the sole purpose of putting them on an application, Ivy League athletes exhibit a level of maturity and dedication well beyond that of their peers.You do not play a sport here just because you feel obligated to do something—especially Ivy League athletes, who are not bound by scholarships to play...