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...contracts with talent-hungry European teams, South African officials on Wednesday scrapped a long-held commitment to racial quotas for their national sports teams. That plan was one of the cornerstones of President Thabo Mbeki's push to integrate sports in a sports-crazed nation, and help close the huge racial schisms left by decades of apartheid. "Quotas are out," the sports minister Makhenkesi Stofile said in a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday attempting to explain the reversal. "We are not going to decide who must be on the team," he said. "All we are saying is: expose everybody, give them...
...coach White and some of his players, the government's decision to drop racial quotas has came too late. The sports minister Stofile said the new government plan would be to develop star black rugby players. That might require huge financial resources, however, including rugby training at poor, black-dominated high schools. Such an initiative would surely require years of investment and commitment - and in politics, that's an eternity...
Comet 17P/Holmes is one of the small ones that usually doesn't put on much of a show - or hasn't since it was first discovered in 1892. A couple of weeks ago, however, this insignificant object formed a huge halo (officially known as a coma, from the Latin word for hair), which quickly swelled to the size of the planet Jupiter. And puny Holmes, a million times brighter than it had been a couple of hours before, suddenly became visible to the naked eye. And so it remains: You can see it yourself, without binoculars if you use this...
...kind of what you’re going see from him this year. “He looks more confident, he’s challenging, a little more aggressive this year,” MacDonald adds. “He’s going to be a huge part of our success this year.” —Staff writer Courtney D. Skinner can be reached at cskinner@fas.harvard.edu...
...Last year, however, Taylor finally stepped into the spotlight. He submitted the team’s most eye-popping play of the season, a coast-to-coast weave down the right side that culminated in a heads-up assist, propelling Harvard to a huge home win over then-first-place Quinnipiac. After compiling six points as a freshman and eight as a sophomore, he exploded for 21 last year...