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...Ireland and the Netherlands [SUMMER OLYMPICS, Sept. 11]. Although you mentioned American shot putter Randy Barnes, who tested positive for steroids, why wasn't there more of a discussion of cheating by U.S. athletes, who hail from a veritable mecca of sports drugs? Any competent sports-medicine authority will affirm that the top echelon of world-class athletes includes those who use chemical assistance, and Americans are no exception. SEAN BOYLE Geilenkirchen-Gillrath, Germany...
...minority. The April exhumation cleared the way for Pio Nono's beatification, scheduled for this Sunday. Beatification will confirm Pius' "heroic virtue," affirm a miracle (a nun's broken kneecap healed) and encourage Catholics to venerate his remains, which will be transferred to a clear crystal casket. The next step will be canonization, or sainthood...
...Brown has always championed the principles of the Ivy League, and we recognize our responsibility to affirm these principles as we move forward," Blumstein said...
...distinguish between them is to imagine that racially and culturally diverse citizens and residents are not really integral to the country. But to affirm the diversity as basic to our self definition as Americans also affirms our pride in the liberal democratic traditions of this country," she wrote in April...
Instead, according to both Harvey A. Silverglate, educational law expert and Boston lawyer, and American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Bill Newman, such a ruling would only affirm existing state law, which says that the relationship between a student and a university is contractual in nature...