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...home educators as reclusive, right-wing Christian fundamentalists has been left in the dust. Today’s home educators include self-proclaimed secularists and Muslim immigrants, traditional Catholics and homosexual partners, Ivy League grad students as well as Bostonians convinced that government schools will never teach history except from a “white Anglo-Saxon perspective...
...Except one, in my opinion. I have a bone to pick with the NCAA for abandoning a criteria it used to measure a team’s recent success. It could be a team’s last five games, it’s last 10, or the last 16 games, but there definitely should be a weight given to teams that are surging into the NCAA Tournament and those that are backing in. Harvard is one of the teams that is surging. So is Maine. In fact, they are the two hottest teams in the nation; both are riding...
...only because it would give the Harvard men’s basketball team a chance to upset Penn or Princeton. But this is the easy way out. Winning a two-week tournament should not trump four months of games. And yet, in college hockey and basketball (except the Ivy League), the regular season is deemed meaningless. At-large bids help, but only for the big schools. In men’s hockey, the ECAC received just one bid this year—and it belongs to Harvard...
Russia has seen these sorts of irregularities before—in December’s parliamentary elections, where United Russia, a party that doesn’t have much of a platform except unwavering support for Putin, scored a tremendous victory. If this trend continues, the Russian Federation may eventually become about as democratic as Khrushchev was well-balanced...
...cook's silent disgust--to Wu's pigs. (Which, yes, the townsfolk eat.) Even more essential are the Indians or, as they are dehumanizingly and incessantly called, "the godless heathen c__ksucker Sioux." Although it's two weeks after Custer's massacre at Little Bighorn, they don't appear, except as a constantly invoked and useful menace. Swearengen's road agents even scalp their victims to make it look like an Indian attack. You can't miss the post-9/11 point about the line between danger and exploitation. "An Indian was never seen in Deadwood alive," Milch says...