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...commissioner, Bud Selig has the power to launch whatever type of investigation he desires. George Mitchell was essentially acting as an agent of the commissioner during the entire process. But from the beginning, Mitchell faced a major obstacle: he had no subpoena power. Plus, he was facing a bitter players union, which felt it had already bent over backward to allay concerns about steroid use, twice agreeing to open up the 2002 collective bargaining agreement to strengthen penalties for drug users. Predictably, the players union balked. Frank Thomas and Jason Giambi were the only active players who talked to Mitchell...
...winning Crimson combo if there ever was one), our hellish Januaries permit our relatively fun Decembers. No one is honestly doing that much school work right now. We are free to soak up the holiday cheer—or at least sleep off that nasty cold. Cruel and bitter January is the appropriate time to lock ourselves in our rooms and study for 16 hours straight. Right now, we should all be mainlining spiked eggnog. Our December leisure also helps local businesses: Harvard Square was mobbed with shoppers last weekend. I, too, was casually perusing some stores. I spotted Steven...
...sports fan the loss of such an electrifying talent is jarring. Throw in the fact that the man was 24 years old and had an 18-month old little girl and a new fiancée to take care of, and it’s a bitter pill to swallow...
...Hockey East) at Bright Hockey Arena tonight at 7 p.m. and Providence (6-6-2, 4-2-1) Saturday night in Providence, R.I.But what most Crimson skaters can taste right now is not the prospect of a No. 1 ranking, but rather, a bitter loss to the Huskies suffered last year on the heels of an eight game winning streak.Unranked UConn stunned then fourth-ranked Harvard in a 3-2 win, with the game-winning goal coming with just 3:14 left to play. The Huskies never trailed in the game and delivered the Crimson only their second loss...
...travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." During the long, bitter years when Gordon Brown hungered for the top job in British politics, he'd never have agreed with this sentiment framed by a fellow Scot, 19th century author Robert Louis Stevenson. After Brown finally collected the keys to 10 Downing Street on June 27, his first three months in office exceeded expectations - his and his country's. Many Britons, even those who rejoiced at Tony Blair's exit, had worried that their brainy, brawny Chancellor of the Exchequer was too complex and introspective to make an effective...