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...Indiana University's administration is all too aware of the delicate balance required to handle an issue as explosive as this. "Sports are an industry of public interest and public passion," explains Deborah Crown, professor of management at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. "Indiana University doesn't want to fall prey to doing what the public wants just because it's the popular thing to do; they want to do what's best for the university." On the bright side, after Monday's meeting and the painstaking negotiations that reportedly led up to it, Knight is now wholly responsible...
Luckily, there are recognizable warning signs, many experts agree. Ninety percent of suicidal teens are depressed, and depression tends to cause certain types of behavioral changes. "There's no one symptom that's going to leap out to a parent," says Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the author of Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide. "It's rather a whole cluster of changes in behavior and mood and sleep and eating patterns and energy levels." Professionals tell parents to look for dramatic changes in behavior or appearance, changes in weight, changes...
Although courts do not keep data on the number of men, women and couples who file for bankruptcy, academic studies have developed estimates. Research conducted by Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor, and Teresa Sullivan, dean of graduate studies at the University of Texas, shows the pattern. From 1981 to 1999, bankruptcy filings by women shot up 838%--four times as fast as for all others--jumping from 53,000 to 497,000. In contrast, filings by husbands and wives rose just 138%, from 178,000 to 423,000. Once a small minority in bankruptcy court, women now comprise...
Warren, the Harvard law professor and longtime student of bankruptcy, marvels at how a piece of legislation that could penalize so many people has come this far. "This is one of those things with low visibility, and therefore it's easy to give in to the interest group," says Warren. "It all flies below the radar screen. That's the best place for the lobbyists. That's where the pickings are the fattest. The only way to explain it is campaign contributions." --With reporting by Laura Karmatz and Andrew Goldstein and research by Joan Levinstein...
University of Washington professor David Shields, author of Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, sees Spree's silence as finesse. "He's never gonna tell. He'd be playing into sports journalism's hand. Like the racial situation in America--silences speak more than the utterances." Shields says Sprewell is one of the few players in the NBA--along with Seattle's Gary Payton, Houston's retiring veteran Charles Barkley and former Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman--who consistently, either consciously or subconsciously, bring racial issues to the fore through their use of language and symbols...