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...This sort of gender gap is glaring and growing at campuses across America. Until 1979, men made up the majority of college students. As women won increasing equality elsewhere in society, it was natural and expected that they would reach parity in college, which they did by the early 1980s. But the surprise has been that men's enrollment in higher education has declined since 1992. Males now make up just 44% of undergraduate students nationwide. And federal projections show their share shrinking to as little as 42% by 2010. This trend is among the hottest topics of debate among...
...although senior goaltenders Jeremy Symington and Sean Coakley are solid between the pipes, they don't inspire the sort of confidence in their blueline that Gustafson did last season. Coakley sports a .875 save percentage, while Symington ekes out a .833 to round out the conference in last place...
...Granted that the networks had to put something on screen, some of the choices were crass enough to mortify the no-cameras-in-the-court purists; CNN's choice to show the courtroom "won-loss" record of lawyers, for instance, was the sort of knee-jerk ballgame mentality that confirms 24-hour news's worst tendencies. But the visuals were beside the point: The verbal back-and-forth itself was not only riveting but a salutary thing for the whole polarized country to hear, even if most of us could understand one out of every three terms...
...least Mr. Sorkin should keep them in mind when he starts thinking spin-off. Chances are, a couple potential consulting producers will be retiring as soon as we sort out the next president. And I'll bet NBC pays a good bit better than the federal government...
...Court is also likely to struggle for some sort of unified voice in a case this important. The easiest way to do that would probably be to wash their hands of the case. If one end of the Court's philosophical spectrum can't win over the other, or at least the Kennedy-O'Connor middle, they may decide that any split decision - and the resultant politicization of America's highest arbiters - would be the worst outcome...