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...hope that she and the selection committee will urge Orlean’s replacement to lift the ban on the football playoffs in the name of equality. The possibility of a playoff berth will inspire and motivate our already-strong football team. In addition, it could increase student spirit and involvement beyond merely The Game. Though we admire and appreciate Orleans’s egalitarian accomplishments and concern for student well-being, we look forward to further positive changes that the next Ivy League executive director has in store...
...Harvard adheres to austere standards in every area of the university and I am honored to labor within that framework,” the statement read. “Individuals with knowledge of our staff understand the high principles under which we operate. We work within the spirit of Harvard and the Ivy League.”According to the Times article, a few of this year’s recruits had fewer points on the Academic Index—the Ivy League’s measure for determining if recruited athletes meet the academic standards of member institutions?...
Meanwhile, the Mars Science Laboratory is scheduled to leave Earth in the fall of 2009 and land on Mars in the summer of 2010. According to Joy A. Crisp, a Mars Science Laboratory scientist, it has capabilities that Spirit and Opportunity did not have, like the ability to analyze drilled powders from rocks for organic compounds...
...Locals have turned to less orthodox methods. According to one popular story, the Lapindo drilling may have angered a spirit living in a tree near the eruption site. Such beliefs have an enduring appeal in this part of Indonesia, where religion is a syncretic mix of Islam and animism, and Lusi has drawn mystics from Bali and Borneo, who have sacrificed chickens, monkeys and even a cow to mollify the upset spirit. The government's engineering team has tried similar tactics; a spokesman says the group has hired diviners to pray for rain to wash the mud away...
...praying that people will like it, that it will hit a chord, and most of all, I’m praying that the spirit of God will be there,” he says. “And if it doesn’t work, back to the drawing board! I was ordained a month and a half...