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...Mohammed's mind, one soul has been brought back from the brink, the one that matters most to him--his son. Small battles in the fight for Islam's future matter too. In the Islamic world now, too many stand at the same divide, between fanaticism and normality. Three years after Sept. 11, the questions are still the same: How many will make it back, as Omar did? And how many...
...wrecking ball of drug abuse has pounded the noble message of the Olympic Creed - "the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well" - to the brink of collapse. It was tempting to believe that Ben Johnson and Linford Christie were villains of a darker past. But great athletes keep turning out to be cheats. American sprinter Kelli White, the reigning 100-m and 200-m world champion, was suspended in May for two years after admitting to using banned drugs since 2000. White was a training partner of Dwain Chambers, a British sprinter of interest...
...wrecking ball of drug abuse has pounded the noble message of the Olympic Creed - "the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well" - to the brink of collapse. It was tempting to believe that Ben Johnson and Linford Christie were villains of a darker past. But great athletes keep turning out to be cheats. American sprinter Kelli White, the reigning 100-m and 200-m world champion, was suspended in May for two years after admitting to using banned drugs since 2000. White was a training partner of Dwain Chambers, a British sprinter of interest...
...Kennedy ’40, also a former Crimson editor, and microchip technology, Kerry said he would lift current administrative restrictions on embryonic stem cell research—and, in perhaps his deftest segue, tied this into the convention’s theme of an optimistic party on the brink...
...hard to find anybody in France who feels sorry for Jean-Marie Messier, the self-promoting former head of Vivendi Universal, who tried to turn the onetime water utility into a glitzy worldwide media giant and ended up driving it to the brink of bankruptcy. But after Messier was held in jail for 36 hours recently by magistrates who opened a formal criminal investigation against him, the big question is no longer how inept he's been. It's whether he was solely responsible for Vivendi's near downfall or is just taking the fall for the failings...