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...begins to bond with her uncle. He may have neither the life-skills nor the ambition to lift himself off the road to nowhere, but he is a good-natured man with the ability to make his niece laugh, to forget, for a moment, her hard-luck life. And somehow her spunk emboldens him to free himself from the psychopathic toils of his father, the source of his and Joleen's lifelong misery (as if you hadn't guessed). There is a wonderful range to Robb's work; she's testy and vulnerable, patient and impatient, hopeful and despairing always...
...points seem to be central to Caldwell’s sweeping assertion—the first being the underlying assumption that athletes here are somehow hugely academically inferior to other students, which is just absurd. Every athlete that gets in does so because he or she is capable of doing the work, its just an admissions fact. And while I don’t deny that many of us might not have been admitted on grades alone, the fact is that playing sports is a valuable skill, just like playing an instrument, singing in a band, or being a science...
...second assertion of her oblivious argument appears to be that somehow every truly high-end recruit is some poor, stupid kid with no chance at getting into Harvard without athletics. It is as if she has this picture of some kid on the streets who’s got skills, but can’t read. She needs to descend from her ivory tower of stereotypes. Many of our best players—among them potential NHL draft picks—are also some of our smartest. Maybe that doesn’t fit into Caldwell’s image...
...courses will be part of the midterm grade process, and all grades will be expected from faculty whether they are unsatisfactory or not, and all grades will be somehow reported to the resident deans whether they are satisfactory or not,” said Registrar Barry S. Kane...
...money had been an illegal contribution from Chavez for the electoral campaign of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Both leaders denied the charge, with the Argentinean president suggesting it was part of a U.S. plot to embarrass Chavez. "People have accused me of being a secret CIA operative somehow involved in this alleged conspiracy," says Telpuk...