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(08/15/06 9:00am)
Four Dartmouth sports programs received national academic honors in the past two weeks. Both the men's and women's golf teams placed among the top 25 in Golf Digest's "College Golf Guide" academic rankings, while both the men's and women's tennis teams had several players honored as Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-Academic Team members.
(08/01/06 9:00am)
As the world awaits the outcome of the Tour de France winner's backup urine test, it appears that no matter what result the lab finds, the controversy and underlying problems will remain. Regardless of the awaited results, the Landis situation typifies the crisis damaging professional sports and the imperfect solutions being applied.
(07/20/06 9:00am)
Right now, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is smiling. Death and destruction make him happy -- especially when it advances his maniacal schemes and especially when those doing the dying have coffins draped by the Star of David. However, Ahmadinejad also cares little about his Muslim brethren dying in Lebanon. As a matter of fact, dead Lebanese make him smile even wider.
(07/06/06 9:00am)
Last week, Warren Buffett, the world's second richest man, donated over 75 percent of his fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest endowed philanthropic organization even prior to the gift. Buffett's donation, worth over $30 billion, is notable not only for its massive scope but also for the fact that it was given to an already existing charitable organization. Rather than start an eponymous foundation of his own, Buffett chose to propel his close friend Gates' foundation into the philanthropic stratosphere. Maybe not so coincidentally, the week prior to the announcement of the Buffett donation, Gates announced that he intended to step down from his day-to-day involvement at Microsoft in order to focus more time and energy on his philanthropy.
(05/22/06 9:00am)
On May 8, 9.9 million people watched David Blaine, on live television, hold his breath underwater for slightly over seven minutes.
(05/08/06 9:00am)
Last Thursday, for the second time, the Interfraternity Council rejected sponsorship of Alpha Epsilon Pi, a national Jewish fraternity. And last Thursday, for the second time, the Interfraternity Council made a mistake.
(04/18/06 9:00am)
I hate CNN. And it has nothing to do with politics.
(03/31/06 10:00am)
This week, the fate of the next class of American university attendees will be mailed to them. High school seniors nationwide will open letters of acceptance and rejection, catalysts of elation or dejection. And when the smoke clears, the power has shifted from the institution to the individual. Now, with notification deadlines imminent, the college-bound high schooler and their family will be confronted with tough choices and emotional decisions. After all, it is a rare occasion when the divergent paths of life appear so concretely before us. In light of the enormity of the decisions the students must make, I am concerned that trends in the decision-making process have begun to adversely affect both the prospective student and the schools themselves.
(01/27/06 11:00am)
It is a regrettable fact: our government has failed to act in finding a viable solution to the impending energy crisis. Yes, our generation will face a full-blown energy crisis. The harbingers of doom have begun to emerge. Oil is currently trading at $67 a barrel. Not surprisingly, by the end of 2005, our trade deficit was in excess of $60 billion. And yes, our government has failed to act. Last summer, given an opportunity to revolutionize energy research and distribution, our Congress stumbled its way through the passage of an uncreative, anachronistic and misguided Energy Bill.
(01/13/06 11:00am)
Although the direct questioning of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito came to a close on Thursday afternoon, I remain pervaded with a sense of uncertainty -- uncertain as to what Alito truly intends to do if given the keys to one of nine of the most powerful offices in the country, uncertain as to what the senators questioning him could have done to have elicited more insightful answers, and uncertain regarding the outcome of the upcoming confirmation vote. If confirmed, the intentions of Samuel Alito will remain publicly unknown until they manifest themselves within the decisions of this country's highest court. In other words, this moment, during the Judiciary Committee's hearings before any voting occurs, is a crucial moment in terms of predicting and shaping the future of U.S. judicial policy; it is the last moment before the elected officials -- the appendages of the people -- lose all control over the process.
(11/18/05 11:00am)
Terrell Owens, the controversially outspoken yet unquestionably talented wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles, has once again found himself front and center in a debate that has quickly burgeoned beyond the scope of the NFL.
(11/08/05 11:00am)
In a week when names such as Samuel Alito and Scooter Libby have leaked into the American consciousness and domestic political chaos dominated the media, I was struck hardest by a story originating from outside of the United States. A week or so ago, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a speech entitled "The World without Zionism," revealed his vision for eliminating the state of Israel. Employing words and concepts more militant than aught have been heard from a country in possession of missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads distances up to 1,200 miles, President Ahmadinejad, for one day, dropped the jaws of people throughout the world.
(10/06/05 9:00am)
As I watch newly empowered Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts begin his journey as an untouchable constitutional deliberator, I can't help but wonder what kind of legacy he will leave. While I am no legal scholar or elected official, I find it unnerving that both legal scholars and elected officials are asking themselves the same question. Additionally, with second Bush judicial nominee Harriet Miers' lack of any previous judicial experience, I am concerned with the emergent political stratagem: nominating people who lack written opinions and, therefore, vulnerabilities during the confirmation process.