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...what types of drugs were used and when and by whom, is a distraction from the larger truth: professional baseball long ago ceased to be a contest of athleticism. A large part of the appeal of following sports, professional or amateur, is predicated on the belief that they are fair contests. That the team with the most skill, the most practice, and even, sometimes, the most luck will prevail. Tilting the playing field further to include external, synthetic factors like steroids is damaging to the basic integrity of any athletic contest, which, like it or not, has far reaching repercussions...
...impeached or even face treason charges. Bhutto said that the end of the emergency was an "important step forward" but that Pakistan was still a long way from true democracy. Officials in Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party warned that the upcoming elections are unlikely to be free and fair and said that government machinery is already "being exploited for foul play...
...next three weeks will be filled with electioneering and mudslinging. The poll's legitimacy will depend largely on whether the opposition parties, who pondered boycotting the election but now seem committed to taking part, see it as mostly fair or renounce it and call protest rallies. With a compromised Supreme Court and restricted media, though, many Pakistanis already believe that the poll will be little more than another fig leaf to disguise a deeply unpopular dictatorship...
...that it can complicate the loading and unloading of books from the Kindle. But two bigger problems with DRM aren’t mentioned: First, it ties the purchased content forever to the device which “reads” it, and second, it prohibits “fair use,” or the limited legal usage of copyrighted works, and undermines the first sale doctrine...
Perhaps more importantly, though, is the effect of DRM on fair uses of electronic media. Electronic copyright enforcement through software is a problem, because software is “stupid.” Fair use, in particular, is a complex set of laws that is meant to be interpreted by judges; to attempt to regulate fair use with a piece of software is quixotic and shortsighted. There’s still no way to loan Amazon e-books to friends, borrow them from libraries, photocopy sections of them for a class, or sell a used copy, rights which have...