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...Geneva summit did not set a press attendance record (14,000 covered last year's Democratic Convention in San Francisco, for example), it probably rates at least an asterisk for the most reporters and technicians on hand to collect the least news. The event also marked Moscow's most ambitious effort yet to get its message across to the world media. In an attempt to match the Reagan Administration's well-honed communication skills, the Soviets set up shop a week before the summit at the International Conference Center, a concrete-block house dubbed "the bunker" and home...
...muscled targets. The iconic figures of the sport’s recent post-strike resurgence—McGwire, Barry Bonds, and Sammy Sosa, among others—have fallen under the shadow of a suspicion that threatens to destroy their reputations and place a more permanent and shameful asterisk than the one that was applied to Maris’ 61 next to the bloated offensive records of the last 10 years...
...only more radical, especially as genetic engineering grows more advanced. When people of means can buy sharper brains and stronger bodies for themselves or better genetic profiles for their kids, juiced-up athletes will be the least of our ethical worries. If Giants slugger Barry Bonds deserves an asterisk next to his home-run records, maybe we will deserve asterisks next to our salaries, our sexual conquests and our kids' SAT scores...
...only more radical, especially as genetic engineering grows more advanced. When people of means can buy sharper brains and stronger bodies for themselves or better genetic profiles for their kids, juiced-up athletes will be the least of our ethical worries. If Giants slugger Barry Bonds deserves an asterisk next to his home-run records, maybe we will deserve asterisks next to our salaries, our sexual conquests and our kids' SAT scores...
...matter who wins this election, the results tonight—if there are any—will be accompanied by an unfortunate asterisk. Nationwide, from Florida to Ohio, from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, battleground states are emerging literally as battlegrounds—not only in terms of the struggle to persuade the handful of undecideds, but also in terms of the concerted, underhanded strategy underway to prevent those enfranchised from exercising their constitutional right to vote. Outside groups (and some groups connected to the inside) have taken up this deplorable shadow campaign, which unfortunately strikes at the legitimacy...