I don't know where the author gets his information, but "study hall" still is a thing in college sports. They may not call it that, but many teams require guys to show up for specified study times, the more well-funded teams have lounges and study areas, and they have access to all kinds of tutors, etc.

Hockey and…

It was.

I was ok with his Oscar speech.
He's been dismissed by critics and "serious film people" for so long he deserves a bit of crowing now, I think.

His clothes look like LL Bean, but only for skinny people.

Actually, that's not right. Even if they are profitable, they're still *more* profitable if somebody else was paying the upfront costs. Business owners are always looking to lower their costs and increase their revenues, regardless. If they can convince politicians to give them money, they'll do it, even if they could…

This is just for last year.

They can help if everything else is done right. The MCI Center was part of an overall plan to fix up Downtown. It wouldn't have worked without it, but it wasn't the only contributor.

It's not going as well with the Nats park, but it will probably pick up.

As far as I can tell, Cincinnati's waterfront has been screwed ever since they decided to build the interstate through there in a way that cuts the waterfront off from downtown. Really, if they want that to work, they need to rethink a lot more than just the stadiums.

True. But Abe Pollin paid for it, didn't he?

I see your point, but in the Braves case, they're going from a place that was at least somewhat public transit accessible to totally giving up on accessibility altogether. None of those other teams you mentioned are actively *trying* to keep out "those people" tot the extent that the Braves are.

So you are correct…

Yeah, there ought to be a legal way to do this. Giving a kid a bag full of cash isn't a smart approach.

Well, the public already supports institutions tasked with preparing kids for college. They're called high schools. If this kid couldn't meet the minimum NCAA standard, either he has a very serious learning disability or his schools failed him, or both.

NCAA already has rules about that. That's not why this kid was busted. It was about the money to pay Kaplan.

The letter of intent doesn't compel you to go to school there, it just makes you ineligible to play sports for any other team until you're released from it.

I don't know if girls really think about how much skin they're showing or how "sexual" their clothes are. They're just going with the fashion. The girls in the pictures above (which shouldn't have been taken, of course) were going to some kind of awards ceremony and they look like they're dressed to go dancing at a…

The clothes don't make much of a difference. As lagomorpheus points out, burkas don't keep women from being harrassed and mistreated.

And as a former teenage boy, I can assure you that a girl's clothes didn't make much difference in how much attention she got from boys. In my day, lots of the most popular and pretty…

They implemented a dress code at the local high school I went to (I don't recall it being an issue in my day. I guess because in those days, baggy was in.) They let the students participate in the code's development and very specifically wrote "we don't want girls to feel like they are responsible for boys not being…

The major problem in the case described in the article is that she reported evidence of an actual assault/rape, and then Northwestern treated it as "sexual harassment," which are not the same thing. The former is obviously a criminal matter, while, as I understand it, "sexual harassment" is a civil/employment law…

That's pretty common now, especially at either large schools or ones in big cities.

Well, you would have had an easy lawsuit if that had happened. Whoever threatened you was clearly in the wrong.