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...matter how many football games the NCAA allows its member colleges to play (11 at this point), it is unlikely that the Ivy League will approve a tenth game within the foreseeable future...
Recently there's been speculation that the League will change its mind in the next year or so because of the added revenue a tenth game would provide for financially sick athletic departments. Cornell athletic director Bob Kane thinks a tenth game would provide funds which would prevent a college from having to cut a minor sport from the program...
Some of Alinsky's "rules of the ethics of means and ends" are absolutes of cynicism; they're all eminently reasonable. The ninth and tenth rules are good examples: "any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical." and "you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments." They are equally true observations on how battles are waged in the pits of political conflicts and as prescriptions for how to keep a movement going when one set of self-interests comes up hard against another set: Alinsky's rules, however unpleasant...
...hearing, Soloway defended his conduct at the "Counter Teach-In" on political grounds. "Shouting down those war criminals isn't one-tenth of one per cent of what they should get," he told the CRR hearing panel...
...King God Didn't Save, a controversial biography of Martin Luther King. Jr., is Wliliams' tenth book. The others include five novels, The Angry Ones, Night Song, Sissie, The Man Who Cried I Am, and. Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light. His last two novels have dealt particularly with the increasing level of violence and irrationality in the attitudes and actions of white America and the effect of this on black people everywhere...