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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...It’s pretty rigorous,” Karlen said. “We’re getting up at seven in the morning, doing double sessions. Our coaches aren??t messing aroud with...
Maybe Samuelson and the other “jock”-hating academes aren??t quite as smart as they think they...
...article entitled, “For Love of the Game,” unmasks the Academic Index (AI), a shockingly imprecise formula that the Ivy League uses to make sure recruits aren??t too stupid. The writer shows how a valedictorian with a 1350 SAT and a highest SAT II of 750 would have an AI of 225 (the AI is calculated by assigning a score of one through 80 to the highest SAT I score, the highest SAT II score and class rank). He mentions, casually, that the Ivy League threshold for athletes is 169, but doesn?...
...lucky, avoids missing car. It has happened to me. You can’t see the car’s blinker—if it’s on—because the whole overtaking-turning maneuver happens so quickly that the car’s rear lights aren??t even in your line of sight before the turn. I was hit this way. I slid into the rear of the car, having braked so suddenly that my body was almost catapulted over my handlebars...
...know most of you (my readers) don’t drive. But maybe, at home over break, you will. Maybe you will be slaloming around the city streets. Even if you aren??t, even if your parents cart you from place to place, if you walk or bike, you can spread the message to those around you: Be careful, considerate, cautious. As the Hippocratic oath goes, first, do no harm. This, the holiday season, is the time we traditionally take to cherish those around us. We would do well also to remember, everyday, that we have each others?...