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...Didn?t we already know Bonds took steroids? Sure. More than a year ago he admitted taking the Cream and the Clear to a grand jury in the federal case against BALCO, the shady Bay Area drug supplier. But he denied knowing they were performance-enhancing drugs. That claim was hard enough to believe then-now, it?s laughable. Fainaru-Wada and Williams, who covered the BALCO case for two years and broke the news of Bonds? original grand jury testimony, look like they?ve built a fairly airtight case, as they?ve based their account on interviews with more...
...season Miuccia Prada loaded down her waiflike models with rolling suitcases. And at the recent menswear shows in Milan, Valentino outfitted a jet-set couple with their own airport trolley, right, complete with a signature red set (clearly he doesn't intend for this pair to stop at baggage claim). "Luggage is the obvious next step after handbags," says Robert Burke, former fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman. "It makes a lot of money for the designers, and it can stay on the floor for a year, whereas a men's shirt only lasts a few months." It also provides...
Comparisons between India and Pakistan are out of line. Those who claim that U.S. treatment of India and its rival Pakistan must be equivalent forget the not so slight distinction between liberal democracy and military dictatorship. Only seven years ago the junta led by Pervez Musharraf seized power in Pakistan in a coup d’état. Consider also that leading Pakistani engineer A.Q. Khan confessed to running a nuclear weapons racket with connections to potential “rogue states” Iran and North Korea. To top it all, Osama bin Laden and senior leaders...
...evangelicals. . . I believe there is a duty to unite with separated brethren in Christ and bring them within the Church.” But Sarah M. Kinsella ’07, the CSA’s Vice President of Community Development, stresses that Catholics don’t claim to have all the answers. “I would never claim to judge whether anyone is going to heaven or not,” she says. “God’s business is God’s business...
There is a fundamental difference, Vendler suggests, between the kind of claim a writer makes on others, who are present and contemporary with her, and her attempt to access hypothetical or potential readers, removed in space and time...