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...players association board meeting ... 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 ... and each year nothing would happen, except that more and more bodies grew unnaturally bigger and the game became twisted into a perversion, its nuances and subtleties blasted away by the naked obsession with power. Baseball was reduced to the lowest common denominator: to whack the ball farther or to heave it faster. Baseball's inability and unwillingness to act made silent partners of Selig and his traditional rivals at the union, leaders Don Fehr and Orza. Neither side had the smarts or the stomach to make steroids a front-burner public...
...said Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country currently holds the E.U.'s rotating presidency. In Sunday's meeting, Topolanek defended the liberal market orthodoxy of many central European members and the U.S. is likely to look to countries like the Czech Republic for support in defining some "lowest-common-denominator rules" that everyone can accept, says Duckenfield. Which may leave other European leaders talking tough but unable to get their...
...Hinrichs, group vice president of Global Manufacturing and Labor Affairs at Ford Motor Company, said the tentative agreement gives Ford "the option" of using Ford common stock for up to 50% of the payments into the VEBA in lieu of cash. "We will consider each payment when it is due and use our discretion in determining whether cash or stock makes sense at the time, balancing our liquidity needs and preserving shareholder value," Hinrichs said...
...voted for this administration, and I believe in its vitality, its idealism, and its ambitions. I genuinely hope that its successes will be written into the history of our generation. But I hope that that will be a tale played out in the language of our common relationships, asserting the dignity and nobility of every member of society. Service is an urge which ought to hope for its own irrelevance, for if a truly equal society ever comes about, service will become happily obsolescent. We must thus act in the service of an equalitarian society, rather than in the service...
...This, however, is where the real challenge arises. Whenever or wherever it strikes, emotional distress has an uncanny ability to make us feel isolated, inadequate, and somehow weaker than other people. Combine this feeling with the emphasis on self-sufficiency that is so common among Harvard students, and you have a recipe for silent suffering: not only do we feel like we have no recourse for help, but we feel ashamed to need that help in the first place...