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...question of how to stymie this movement is complicated. Although colleges are in part to blame for accepting athletic prodigies with the knowledge that they will leave after one year—taking them for athletic success and not academic potential—they are not the root of this issue. As backward as it may sound, the NBA should re-allow players to enter the league directly from high school. Rather than letting the small number of high-profile players publicly act as college students for a year and thus set an example to young fans that college...
...they consider to be their right to lead the government. Iraq's Sunnis have been suspicious of the Shi'ite-led government of al-Maliki, not without reason, and there has been an acute sense of betrayal among the former insurgents who joined the Sunni Awakening, which facilitated the success of the U.S. troop surge, only to find themselves stiffed by al-Maliki's government...
Although Delgado will graduate in two short months, she will leave behind a solid model of success for aspiring Radcliffe athletes...
...confidence-building measures "would help facilitate progress in future, formal nuclear talks," says Steve Andreasen, a former director for arms control on the National Security Council and now a lecturer at the University of Minnesota. But, along with Kristensen, Andreasen points out that verification procedures are crucial to the success of any significant cuts to nuclear arsenals - and those procedures must be agreed on by both countries in advance. The greatest obstacle to the arms-control progress may be convincing decision makers on both sides that banishing the ghosts of the Cold War should be an urgent priority, and that...
Michael Looney, the head of the mortuary-affairs investigative unit in Haiti, says the site has become too dangerous to continue excavation and poses increasing risk to his crew and to fragile homes in the surrounding area. His team is now returning to the U.S. "The success was so great," says Looney of the bodies they recovered. At one of the major recovery sites, the Hotel Montana, in the upper-class area of Pétionville, Looney's team recovered the remains of 17 Americans, including students from Lynn University...