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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result is a cycle of exclusion--a closed network of potential coaches makes it harder to recruit minorityathletes, which in turn should keep the "good oldboy" network far from diverse for years into thefuture...
...candidates with designs on professionalcoaching jobs, Harvard is less a leg up than alayover. Since coaching positions at top DivisionI schools often preface professional positions,minority coaches--who are more coveted in the prosthan in the NCAA--are even less likely to turn toHarvard as a viable option without compensatoryincentive. That incentive, it seems, Harvard isunable or unwilling to provide...
Like other athletic departments in the IvyLeague and across the NCAA, Harvard depends upon anetwork of largely personal connections to hirenew staff when vacancies arise. Head coaches, inparticular, turn to former players, colleagues andformer assistants, preferring, in the words of theSelf-Study, "someone I know...
...from American factories rose 1.2% in July, the strongest performance since November. As investors around the globe sought a safe haven for their capital, long-term interest rates continued their slide to 5.3%, a silver lining for the U.S. in the cloud over emerging markets. Those low rates in turn have boosted the used-housing market, which recorded an all-time high of houses sold in July. Housing values, another important factor in Americans' calculation of their wealth, are rising smartly at about 5% a year. Unemployment stands at 4.5%, nearly a 28-year low, and only 1.8% for those...
...President told Captain Jeffrey Purdie, the Secret Service watch commander for the uniformed division at the time, "I hope you use your discretion." Captain Purdie interpreted the President's remark to mean that Captain Purdie "wasn't going to say anything," and he in turn told all of the officers involved not to discuss the incident. One officer recalled that Captain Purdie told him and other officers, "Whatever just happened didn't happen...