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This is the season of "March madness." It is a frenzied time when basketball rules the tube, millions pour into college coffers, and lanky young giants seem anointed with superhuman gifts of grace and courage. But beneath the pageantry of March madness lies another, more disturbing kind of madness: an...
As basketball fans across the country fix their eyes on the NCAA tournament this week, TIME shows how the national obsession with winning and moneymaking is turning big-time college sports into an academic scandal that for too many players leads down a one-way path to broken dreams. -- A...
Clark gained national attention -- including a TIME cover -- by bullying students and faculty into a state of moral grace and academic excellence. His well-publicized symbols of rule were a bullhorn and a baseball bat. His lessons included expelling 300 of the worst troublemakers en masse, chaining the school's...
After the showdown, local and government support for A.C.T. dropped, and the company built up a $1.5 million deficit. In trying to close the gap, Ball increasingly favored small casts and minimal sets, leading to productions that seemed skimpy in the 1,396-seat Geary Theater, an ornately paneled and...
By now the public seems ready to let bygones be bygones. Subscriptions are back up from a low of 11,700 to nearly 18,000, and ticket sales provide almost 75% of the $8.1 million annual budget. Unfortunately, what appears onstage is no guarantee of continued enthusiasm. August Wilson's...