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...given names like "the Vikings" and "the Saints": the team wants to be associated with the cliche qualities of their namesake, like strength, courage and endurance. If the intent were to ridicule or trivialize a class of people, why would anyone name their team after those people? Would you root for a team called "the Pansies...
...Military Council member Dzhaba Ioseliani, head of the anti-Gamsakhurdia Mkhedrioni, or White Horsemen, paramilitary squads, suggested that the timetable would depend on how quickly life in the republic returned to normal. "Power is now in our hands," he said. "Until things calm down and until democratic institutions take root, we will keep power...
...root of all scheduling problems is that summer is just too long," Gentile said. "If we came back at the end of August like the rest of the world we could have a fall break, a two week reading period and a longer intersession...
Jerry Pawloski Sr. certainly had a reason to root for Harvard. His son Jerry Pawloski Jr. '88 is an assistant coach for the men's hockey team...
Some opponents of tenure argue that the collective-bargaining process is the root problem. Peter Greer, on leave as dean of Boston University's School of Education and now acting superintendent of schools in Chelsea, Mass., the troubled system that the university agreed to manage two years ago, says the "tyranny" of collective bargaining dooms any school-reform effort. Greer is currently being sued by Chelsea teachers for hiring four untenured teachers over tenured ones for a program to prevent high school dropouts...