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...frequent press-box debate among the football writers is which Ivy coaches would succeed on the field on Saturdays if they were allowed to play. At well over six feet tall and still pushing 300 pounds, Wilson looks like he could start on any offensive line in the Ivy League, and probably would. He is rarely difficult to find on the sideline, as he towers over most of his own players...
...School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and now as the chief of the University’s flagship school.Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, says that professors need a variety of skills if they want to succeed in administration. “For deaning, having experience, including setting up an industry, is valuable because you deal with millions of problems,” he says. “A lot of deaning is actually problem solving.” Smith says he likes research that involves interacting with industries...
Pentagon officials say they have no idea whether Musharraf's imposition of what is essentially martial law will succeed or fail in stemming the radical Islamist tide. "Sure it works in the short term," one Army officer says. "But if the country is too brittle it could break." Pentagon officials added that the U.S. is reviewing some $300 million in foreign military sales financing for 2008, $32 million for law enforcement and anti-narcotics efforts, and $2 million for military training - the same kinds of program whose scrapping in the 1990s so upset Zinni...
...restaurants in Harvard Square seek to break the curse of their predecessors. Both eateries have opened in the past week at locations where previous occupants lost leases after seeing their business dwindle. But the owners of Small Plates Restaurant and Oggi say they can succeed where others have failed. Oggi, a cafe which specializes in pizzas, filled the space left by Italian restaurant Campo de Fiori in the Holyoke Center. Campo de Fiori, which similarly offered sandwiches and pizzas, closed after it lost its lease. Farther south on JFK Street, Small Plates Restaurant serves tapas bistro—but lacks...
...league that denies retirees the money to which their injuries entitle them. The game rakes in $7 billion per year and causes more bodily harm than any other. And yet fewer than 3 percent of applicable veterans—men plagued by brain trauma, dementia, and paralysis—succeed in obtaining disability benefits. But surely the retirees can pay medical expenses with the money they made as players right? Unfortunately, no. The violent nature of football often renders athletes incapable of providing for their families. At career’s end their bodies are broken and multiple concussions have...