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...taken up an issue sure to arouse passions in an effort to gain a measure of publicity and acclaim. The steroid scandal is quickly becoming the sport’s Red Scare, and the intervention of Congress is a campaign to seize the moral high ground in the affair and elevate the image of government at the expense of baseball players who have been hamstrung by mistrust...
...question now is whether another WorldCom-like debacle could occur despite the safeguards enacted in its wake. No doubt, corporate boards are flexing more muscle in an effort to improve accountability of all sorts. Former Boeing chief Harry Stonecipher recently lost his job for having an affair with a company employee. Disney's Michael Eisner and Hewlett-Packard's Carly Fiorina lost their posts for poor performance, and AIG directors just forced out the firm's longtime chief, Maurice (Hank) Greenberg (see "Another Titan Takes a Tumble," above), as the company's legal woes mounted. WorldCom's collapse hit directors...
...hockey teams boasted the second- and third-best defenses in the nation entering Friday night’s ECAC tournament semifinal, and when the scoreboard announced a 1-1 tie halfway through the final period, it appeared the contest would end a genuine goaltenders’ affair...
After the marathon affair, which, at close to 113 minutes set a record for longest-ever game in the tournament, a number of other NCAA and personal highs fell...
...Green Card Incident, as the Canter-and-Siegel affair came to be known, , brought to the surface issues that had been lurking largely unexamined beneath the Net's explosive growth. It was not designed for doing commerce, and it does not gracefully accommodate new arrivals -- especially those who don't bother to learn its strange language or customs or, worse still, openly defy them...