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...have been dismayed by the rise of Olympic “dream teams” feeling instead that the Olympics ought to belong to amateurs. Donato also describes him as a purist in terms of ice hockey.“He tried to play the game from a pure standpoint, not as an act of thuggery but a show of skill,” he recalls.“There was a lot of skating, a lot of passing,” Fusco says. “He worked very hard to see his own values upheld...
...team were accused of raping a local African-American college student, who had been hired as a dancer for a party. Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) Director Susan B. Marine said Duke President Richard Broadhead should make public statements about the university’s moral standpoint on the incident, adding that she thinks Harvard’s leadership would not have done a better job. “Do I think President Summers would have come out? No,” Marine said. Students brought up issues of race, class, and athletic privilege complicating the alleged...
...concerned" that devices like Slingbox could extend broadcasts beyond the permitted territory, Whitehead says, noting that "this is going to lead to interesting discussions with the studios." That's putting it mildly - the entire structure of commercial television rests on geographically specific copyrights. "The implications from a public-policy standpoint are enormous," says Dennis Wharton, senior vice president of communications for the Washington-based National Association of Broadcasters. In the U.S. in late March, the House Commerce Committee held inconclusive hearings on the copyright implications of devices like Slingbox and pvrs, which let people skip commercials and store shows...
...sleep with prostitutes. And on Wednesday, a federal prosecutor charged 40 people in connection with the scandal, including Jose Dirceu, the man who was Lula's closest advisor for years. Says opposition Senator Arthur Virgilio: "Lula has run a corrupt government, one that is completely unstable from an ethical standpoint and incompetent from an administrative standpoint...
...money. Perhaps Harvard could salve its conscience by simply refusing the money that comes from the Defense Department. After all, if it is repugnant to associate with military lawyers recruiting on campus, it must be equally repugnant to take millions of dollars from other military officers. From my own standpoint as a former Judge Advocate General officer, it is mystifying to me how making it harder to recruit graduates of Harvard Law is supposed to change the policy on homosexuals in the military, a policy which was imposed by Congress and former President Clinton—it cannot be changed...