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...situation, but firmly rooted in the customs and courtesies of the sport.* * *While still mulling the direction of this column, I happened upon Rick Reilly’s piece in this week’s issue of Sports Illustrated. Aptly enough, Reilly chose to write about the unwritten rules of sports. Several of the dicta that he goes on to enumerate, including one about stealing when owning a late lead in a baseball game, struck me as extremely pertinent. Then I reached the end of the article, which bore the following disclaimer: “Rick Reilly is on vacation...
From cellar dweller to national champion, from a blizzard in New York to the champions’ podium in Houston, the Harvard fencing team added perhaps the only unwritten chapter to its 100-year history at Rice on Sunday...
...FiCom voted against the critical $2,500 grant it had given in previous years because of its own unwritten rules about funding transportation costs, which it had not previously applied to Mission Hill’s grants. In an e-mail to The Crimson, FiCom chair Lori M. Adelman ’08 explained that Mission Hill’s previous funding was due to “extraneous circumstances with past miscommunication between UC leadership and Mission Hill leadership.” While FiCom’s decision may have been consistent with its unpublished guidelines, the committee?...
...FiCom website, which contained information contradictory to its unwritten rules, did nothing to help the situation. Much of the confusion surrounding transportation and other funding could have been easily alleviated had FiCom and the UC taken the time and initiative to update, publicize, and adhere to guidelines on its site. FiCom, to its credit, updated its website yesterday with its current guidelines, but it must now publicize these new guidelines and apply them consistently...
...within months of each other. The first, $600,000 tagged for the Semitic Museum’s efforts at preserving photographs of Middle Eastern life, came from the Saudi royal family. The second gift, this time from a Saudi businessman, aroused controversy because some alleged that it involved an unwritten agreement conditional on the hiring of a new faculty member with ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). The allegations were never proven...