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...jobs are very easy: we get to sit around and watch sports while eating the free press-box food. But there’s an element of difficulty in that many of us never played the sports we cover, or at least not past a Pop Warner level. The vast majority of us are fans-turned-reporters, where we throw on veils of objectivity and try to explain what happened instead of blindly cheering.All this puts us in a precarious position. Coach, you can come after reporters for not spending their lives playing or coaching football, or argue that...
...been six months since Bolivian soldiers marched onto foreign owned gas fields and planted themselves under signs reading "NATIONALIZED: PROPERTY OF THE BOLIVIAN PEOPLE." At the time, newly elected Bolivian President Evo Morales' May 1 announcement to nationalize his country's vast natural gas reserves by October 28 seemed like a bold gambit that could either enrich his impoverished nation - or easily backfire. He gave the foreign firms 180 days to agree to new contracts giving Bolivia 50% or more of the profits - up from the 18% agreed upon in 1997 - or else be forced to leave...
...business of discipleship, missions and a higher calling than popcorn-and-peanuts youth culture," says Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals. Scholars who have looked at young Christians say their spiritual drift is in part the result of a lack of knowledge about their faith. "The vast majority of teens who call themselves Christians haven't been well educated in religious doctrine and therefore don't really know what they believe," says Christian Smith, a University of Notre Dame sociologist and the author of Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers. "With...
...course, the President and his party still have some built-in advantages. The gerrymandering of the past decade has turned the vast majority of congressional districts into fortresses for incumbents, to the point where the number of House seats in serious contention is only about three dozen, compared with roughly 100 in the 1994 landslide that brought the G.O.P. to power with a 54-seat pickup. And the Republicans retain their advantage in money and, most operatives on both sides agree, the pinpoint sophistication of their turnout operation among a conservative base in which Bush still has nearly 90% approval...
Most broadly, Harvard’s march is slowing because it is failing to leverage its vast resources in two ways. While both of these seem to be obvious goals, the history of Harvard shows that neither of them can be pursued without significant internal opposition. First, Harvard must continue to improve the undergraduate experience. Second, Harvard must look for ways to bridge the talents and resources across schools, divisions, and departments in order to achieve a greater social good...