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...steroids in Major League Baseball, accusations of cheating and betraying the popular trust are being continuously flung at a handful of muscled targets. The iconic figures of the sport’s recent post-strike resurgence—McGwire, Barry Bonds, and Sammy Sosa, among others—have fallen under the shadow of a suspicion that threatens to destroy their reputations and place a more permanent and shameful asterisk than the one that was applied to Maris’ 61 next to the bloated offensive records of the last 10 years...
HUCEP helps increase the safety of students. A HUCEP escort provides the benefit of safety in numbers to someone walking alone. However, as the number of called-in escorts has fallen, some have taken to disparaging the program. While higher numbers of escorts are obviously preferable, critics miss the greatest benefit of the HUCEP program which is the presence and visibility of the escorts. The benefits are both psychological and real. On their nightly walks, escorts are always watching for any suspicious or dangerous behavior. Sometimes, according to escort Bailes L. Brown ’07, HUPD gives escorts descriptions...
...that deterrent is useless if the island can't hold out on its own until U.S. forces arrive. As the P.L.A. expands, the pressure on Taiwan to maintain the balance of power increases. Some analysts argue that the island hasn't kept pace. Taiwan's military budget has fallen as a percentage of its GDP, and its armed forces have been slow to enact needed institutional reforms, according to U.S. strategic experts. A multibillion-dollar arms purchase from the U.S., pushed by President Chen Shui-bian, has been held up for almost four years because of resistance by the opposition...
...that the bureaucratic pieces have fallen her way, what does Rice plan to do with them? She has led the push in the Administration for reform in the Middle East, canceling a trip to Egypt after Cairo jailed a leading political activist (the next day, Hosni Mubarak stunned the Egyptian public with a call for multiparty presidential elections). Rice executed a course correction on Lebanon, cooling U.S. denunciations of the militant group Hizballah, aware that the organization will almost certainly increase its clout in the May elections. And Rice quietly prevailed two weeks ago, when the U.S. backed European efforts...
...lecture by Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt with a speech by Holocaust denier David Irving, who has argued that the Nazis' crimes have been overplayed. Amid the kerfuffle, some conservative bloggers even found a way to blame Bill Clinton--for how far the once noble C-SPAN has fallen--while LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS featured the best one-liners: e.g., "What's next, bin Laden rebutting Wolfowitz...