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...business four years ago. But he won't be voting in this week's parliamentary elections. Last year, Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party barred all expats, except for diplomats, from casting a ballot; a Supreme Court ruling two weeks ago confirmed the ban. That decision rankles with the millions of Zimbabweans, up to half the voting-age population, living in exile. If ZANU-PF wins - or fixes - a two-thirds majority, it will be able to change the constitution, making it easier for Mugabe to stay on or handpick his successor. "Of course...
...gone from a loved, classy hero to Public Enemy Number One. The former Home Run King has been called a cheater, even though he was well within his rights in denying answering questions about steroid use. If indeed McGwire juiced up, critics should consider the lack of a ban before 2002, as well as the highly ambiguous and unproven effects of steroids on actual performance, before throwing Big Mac off of baseball’s Mt. Olympus...
...fateful utterance—“I’m not here to discuss the past”—should be taken to heart by both Congress and baseball alike. There is no sense in persecuting players who may have taken steroids prior to the ban in 2002, or in trying to reconfigure records tainted by the needle. All that can be done is to move forward with the best policy possible. Baseball has shown that it is committed to fixing the problem, and it will continue to be committed long after Congress has given...
Though the ban on single-sex organizations was originally instituted to protect women, according to the subcommittee, the policy is not meeting its original goals...
However, Romney and others have argued that the destruction of embryos at any stage is morally wrong, and Romney has called for a ban on research involving the cloning of human embryos...