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With the exorbitant costs to attend colleges, the lure of financial assistance becomes a potent weapon in the recruiting game. The Ivy schools, constrained by the group agreement, rely upon the name recognition of the university and unparalleled academics to attract athletes...
...Once upon a time, it was considered nearly impossible for a female academic at Harvard--or anywhere else, for that matter--to balance the demands of teaching, research, graduate student advising and family...
...good compared to some places," she says upon reflection. "It's not good compared to Sweden," she jokes...
...Upon being asked what he would do if the President died, former Vice President J. Danforth Quayle (1988-1992) said that he would "say a prayer and call a cabinet meeting." What would...
...penalty was justified, in certain brutal cases, on the basis of the social contract. That is: Some hideous crimes demand the ultimate punishment in order to satisfy the essentially civilizing deal that we make with one another as citizens. We forgo individual revenge, deferring to the law, but depend upon a certainty that the law will give us a justice that must include appropriate harshness. I favored the Texas folk wisdom: "He needs killing." If the law fails in that task, I said, and people see that evil is fecklessly tolerated, then the social contract disintegrates. Society needs a measure...