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...grew up in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood, where the Obamas have lived for several years. He went to the same private school the President-elect's daughters attended until recently. After Harvard, where he was co-captain of the basketball team, Duncan spent a year playing the sport in Australia before returning to his hometown in 1992. Within short order, he was garnering national attention for starting an innovative - and successful - public school, Ariel Community Academy. He was tapped by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to run the city's schools in 2001. (Read more about Obama and education...
...player certain to see a lot of the court tomorrow is junior guard Jeremy Lin. The best player on the team, and perhaps in the Ivy League, Lin went a career-high 47 minutes against the Huskies before fouling out late in the second overtime. The Colonials sport their own weapons both inside and out. Led by guards Noel Wilmore and Tony Taylor, and forwards Damien Hollis and Diggs, George Washington will be tough, and it will take strong efforts from both the Crimson frontcourt and backcourt to slow them down. Joining Lin in combating the George Washington guards...
...Klein's parting shot at a president who once had an approval rating in the high 70s and still has an approval rating twice as high as Congress's is out of line [Dec. 8]. Armchair quarterbacking is a national sport, and while I recognize that Klein leans a bit to the left, his column shows a stunning lack of perception. To paraphrase a political line from the past, "It's the security of the people, stupid." This President, like all Presidents, has his faults, but the economic results of a decade-plus of putting people into homes everyone knew...
...with so many two-sport superstars playing for the Crimson, my question remains: is it fair...
...like having the football team out in force. It’s great for competition, and it is genuinely fun. But for athletes like Puchtel, and those like him playing at Harvard now—those two sport stars who dominate, unfairly, in IM games—maybe the rules need to be changed...