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Just in case the weather has you down (or you've already done all of your required reading for the spring term), we at FlyBy asked faculty members to give some reading suggestions for the remaining days of spring break. Here's what they told...
...able to secure a hefty rights fee for a new deal in a shaky economy, the extra games could secure additional revenue for the schools - NCAA members share the tournament revenue whether they play or not, so more games enlarges the pie. "The opportunity for securing long-term financial stability through such contracts is certainly a priority," says Shaheen. "Revenue stability is something that our membership relies upon and something we must strive for in service to them...
...really just about the kids, don't stop at 96," says ESPN analyst Jay Bilas, who played at Duke in the mid-1980s. "Let all 3,400 Division 1 teams in." (There are 347 basketball teams in Division 1.) Bilas believes a diluted tournament would ultimately inflict long-term harm to college basketball. "I just think there aren't 96 good basketball teams," he says. "And so what we're essentially saying is that we're going to allow 32 more teams who we think are just as good as the crummy teams that...
Reagan even used - or his Administration even used - the term "war against terrorism," right?Yeah. In '84 they started pushing new legislation to try and do different things to counter terrorist groups and to freeze their assets and marshal the forces of government, and this is when they announced they were declaring a "war against terrorism." I remember going back to the Reagan records and seeing that and having this startling moment...
...brief interview with TIME this week in Port-au-Prince, Préval, whose presidency will end next February, because he is not eligible to run for another five-year term, insisted that "elections are a necessity" - an essential condition for Haiti's post-quake recovery as well as long-term development. "Elections may not happen tomorrow, but they will happen before I leave," he said. "We have 11 months. We have to start to plan as quickly as possible." (See a pictorial history of Haiti's misery...