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...road. The fans will be wielding some nasty signs: Ramirez reportedly may claim that he took a banned drug called human chorionic gonadotropin to cure erectile dysfunction (the female fertility drug also happens to elevate testosterone levels, which get drained by, coincidentally, steroid use). "Manny Being Mini," one clever columnist has already written. Maybe you just want to send a message, enough is enough with these guys we can no longer trust, and cut ties with the best player ever busted by MLB drug testing. Whether you believe his excuse or not - what's wrong with Viagra? - on paper...
...excitement over the bank tests was an important replacement for the thrill of Bernie Madoff's weird and exotic life. He was remarkably clever and had great skill in robbing otherwise intelligent people blind. A careful analysis of Madoff's actions has not uncovered much that was not clear in the first few weeks of the investigation other than the fact that the people who gave him money were not intelligent at all. Madoff was such an improbable monster that the public followed the story with untiring fascination week-after-week. Once Madoff went to prison, the magic wore...
...clever headline by The Stanford Daily News. Kind of. When former Stanford Provost Condoleezza Rice dined with students at Stanford, they said they had a positive experience speaking with her--though several students also protested outside on the lawn, arguing that she should be prosecuted for "war crimes" such as "authorizing torture and waging aggressive war in Iraq...
...President has been clever about this. He hasn't made it the centerpiece of his Administration - and a fat target for his opponents - as Bill Clinton did. He hasn't proposed a specific plan, allowing, instead, a proposal to percolate through the Congress. "Everything about this process seems the polar opposite of 15 years ago," says John Rother of AARP. "The Administration seems determined not to make the same mistakes as Clinton did." (See the five truths about health care in America...
...With clever gizmos like that one, Zojirushi has fashioned itself as the Nintendo of kitchen gadgetry. Both companies have crushed much larger competitors in narrow markets where their engineering talent has yielded marketable product improvements. And both have remained lean - with about 5,000 employees between them and small, stable management teams. Both have leaned heavily on slick industrial design. And just as Nintendo has become hip again with its underdog approach to video-game design, Zojirushi has been brewing up its own cult following with its sleekly crafted gizmos...