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...defense with eight tackles. “We’ve got such a great cycle right now, three terrific seniors and a junior who is as good as those guys,” head coach Tim Murphy said. “You very rarely have that accumulation of talent, experience, and playmakers. It’s just very tough on people. We can play zone, we can play man. It’s tough to find a guy you can pick on.” Senior cornerback Steven Williams rounded out the top three in tackles, posting four, including...
...year deal, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, would include the rights to sell three studio albums, promote Madonna's concerts and sell licensing name rights and merchandise, meaning a company that has never represented an artist before would suddenly be overall talent agent to one of the world's biggest music acts. If it is consummated - and both Warner Music and Live Nation refused requests to comment on the deal - it would be just the latest example of the increasingly prevalent so-called 360-degree deals that have concert promoters, record labels, ticketing agencies and management firms...
...Other than her outstanding academic record, several of Drew’s achievements stand out from her years at Concord. First comes her intuitive sense and how much she cares about how others feel. Second, comes her talent in steering others toward more productive and harmonious directions. Especially important, we see how she has developed the readiness to perceive new ideas and the initiative to seize the opportunity to use them to in moving both people and institutions forward. Although I never dreamed in the 1960s that Drewdie might one day become president of Harvard University, I believe that Harvard...
...time of its founding, the United States has tied its national identity to the power of education. We have long turned to education to prepare our citizens for the political equality fundamental to our national self-definition. In 1779, for example, Thomas Jefferson called for a national aristocracy of talent, chosen, as he put it, “without regard to wealth, birth, or other accidental condition of circumstance” and “rendered by liberal education ... able to guard the sacred deposit of rights and liberties of their fellow-citizens.” As our economy...
...institutions like Harvard and its peers, this revolution has been built on the notion that access should be based, as Jefferson urged, on talent, not circumstance. In the late 1960s, Harvard began sustained efforts to identify and attract outstanding minority students; in the 1970s, it gradually removed quotas limiting women to a quarter of the entering college class. Recently, Harvard has worked hard to send the message that the college welcomes families from across the economic spectrum. As a result we have seen in the past 3 years a 33 percent increase in students from families with incomes under...