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...will lose the activity they hold dearest. It’s a scene that occurs too often across the country now. When wallets dry up, or when Title IX requirements become impossible to fulfill, the small sports are the first to go. Fencing, gymnastics and water polo teams often vanish when more popular sports remain unaffected...
...worthy to bestow a degree. It is my sincere hope that there will be some published follow-up, lest we all be left to wonder, and, with no direction for our concerns to impel action, lest human compassion fade to apathy and Agatha M. Okyere, the living woman, vanish off our streets and into Harvard lore and worse, Harvard jokes...
...matter if you’ve caught for 1,000 yards or never lined up in a meaningful situation. The season and its concerns—who will start at quarterback next week, who’s hurt, who’s going to break what record—vanish in a sea of humanity. A slowly churning sea, perhaps, seeing as Harvard Stadium’s high walls don’t provide the best storming environment, but an enjoyable one even still...
Without his trusty shades, most of Paul Oakenfold’s celebrity sheen seems to vanish. But when I ask him how much his life actually resembles that of a glorious jet-setting DJ, he answers “80 percent” matter-of-factly enough to douse the glimpse I might have had of an everyman who just happens to enjoy spinning records. Oakenfold’s living the life of a superstar and enjoying it. I venture to wonder how he feels about being called a sellout...
...Pakistan aimed at finding al-Qaeda men have been compromised by leaks from local police and intelligence services. And--as happened earlier this month in an operation at the Shemshahtoi camp outside Peshawar--even if the FBI and their local friends get into a camp, suspects can easily vanish among the maze of adobe huts, which teem with thousands of Afghans who hate the police. In a similar raid on the Jalousai camp, 12 miles from Peshawar, however, the feds were luckier, picking up four Afghans who were al-Qaeda suspects, plus a trove of sat phones and computer diskettes...