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...more bodies grew unnaturally bigger and the game became twisted into a perversion, its nuances and subtleties blasted away by the naked obsession with power. Baseball was reduced to the lowest common denominator: to whack the ball farther or to heave it faster. Baseball's inability and unwillingness to act made silent partners of Selig and his traditional rivals at the union, leaders Don Fehr and Orza. Neither side had the smarts or the stomach to make steroids a front-burner public issue...
...tale played out in the language of our common relationships, asserting the dignity and nobility of every member of society. Service is an urge which ought to hope for its own irrelevance, for if a truly equal society ever comes about, service will become happily obsolescent. We must thus act in the service of an equalitarian society, rather than in the service of an aristocratic charity to a pitied underclass...
...government expenditures worth cutting. However, it is important that Obama’s message to the American people is an unwavering pledge to end the economic plunge at all costs. Instead, this announcement sends mixed signals. Obama recently signed a $787 billion stimulus package, the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, into law. Tim Geithner just set out the skeleton for a plan to rescue the banking system that could cost up to $2.5 trillion. Obama is also holding fast to his campaign promises to reform health care and education. He has also highlighted Social Security...
...modern voyeurism—the fact that we can know intimate details about a person’s life and relationships without ever interacting with them, whether through Facebook, tabloids, or reality television—allows us to keep on looking, without examining the perverseness of transforming the act of viewing into a pleasure in and of itself. Against the atomized reality of individuals socializing through screens and in complete isolation, many still feel the need to classify their relationships based on our assumptions of how others will react—whether they be envious ex-boyfriends or childhood friends...
...second concern is about the act of asking for help. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, a poet and psychoanalyst, made the following statement: “Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.” I know that it can be hard to ask questions or to acknowledge that you don’t have the answers that appear critical to move forward. But, it is important to remember that this is a complicated place and this is a complicated period of one?...