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...baseball season opens this week, fans may notice that the league seems to be focusing as much on what players put on their bodies as on what they put in them. After having to contend with the steroid controversy earlier this year, Major League Baseball is making sure players clean up their acts in other ways. The league has told Blue Jays pitcher Justin Miller, above, that he'll have to cover the tattoos that adorn his arms with long sleeves so as not to distract other players. In the past, similar concerns have led to skirmishes and new rules...
...knew coming in that he was not going to contend for the Ivy League stolen base crown,” Walsh says. “He’s made himself a much better runner now. He’s worked hard...
...Antonio Paolucci, special commissioner for Florentine museums. The timing is right: it's exactly 500 years since Filippino's death. And it's only fitting that the show should take place in a palace built by Filippo Strozzi, Filippino's greatest patron. Many of those associated with the exhibition contend the friar's illegitimate son was his teacher's superior. Co-curator Jonathan Nelson says the show "introduces a new artist similar in style and equal in quality" - he pauses, correcting himself - "superior in quality to Botticelli." Filippino, he says, "combined a poetic vision with an extraordinary ability to render...
...liberal people whose liberal qualifications have been scorned or criticized in the past. For example, they may have supported Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., for president, or thought the war on Iraq was a good idea. To make up for their liberal insecurities they take the leap and contend that they are among the vanguard of the liberal elite. It’s a safe bet to say that at least half of those calling themselves “Very Liberal” are instead just plain “Liberal...
...convinced from talking to students and observing the current [academic] system that our students have to contend with too many requirements, and the system is too complicated and difficult to understand.” Summers said. “I hope that our new system will be less burdened by requirements and offer more student choice...