Friday, June 01, 2012
SEC spring meeting notebook: Florida president says SEC won't compromise on top-4 playoff | Birmingham News - Jon Solomon - DESTIN, Fla. -- Florida President Bernie Machen said today the SEC won't compromise on its position that the top four teams should be in a college football playoff, not a mixture of conference champions. "We won't compromise on that," said Machen, chair of the SEC presidents and chancellors. "I think the public wants the top four. I think almost everybody wants the top four."
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Stop Blindly Following a Failed Policy - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - Otto Pérez Molina is the president of Guatemala. - In 1961 the international community signed a United Nations treaty that reflected an inter-governmental consensus on how to fight drugs all over the world. Basically, the consensus was the following: drug consumption is very damaging for human beings, and the best way for preventing this type of consumption is to prohibit the production, trafficking and use of drugs. Today, 51 years after reaching this consensus, something is pretty clear: drugs are prohibited but drugs continue to be consumed in quantities so large that the global market is calculated in hundreds of billions of dollars. In other words, the global consensus is far from being successful. Actually, I prefer to call it what it really is: a failure.
Vandy coach: My assistants must have good-looking wives | ajc.com - Franklin later went on Twitter to say he was sorry. "My foot doesn't taste good," he wrote. "I hope I did not offend anyone ... attempt at humor obviously fell a few yds. short. ... I clearly used language that doesn't reflect my view on women and I am SORRY!" Franklin is in his second year as Vanderbilt's head coach.
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