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...athlete chooses to live his or her life is not our real concern nor any of our business. As fans, our concern should be for the fairness of the game May the grass always be green, the track last and the playing field level...
...team penalties and league fines don't send a clear enough message to players, then maybe high school drug tests and jail time will. Even though the institution of sports may no longer be sacred, the idea still is. The grass is still green, the track still fast. Let's hope that the scales of justice can restore balance to the playing field and make everything level again...
Most of the organizational work for the rally is being done by smaller schools outside Boston, Ho said, but much of the grass-roots work the day of the event must be accomplished by Boston schools...
Ross Perot, for example, was able to address the American public without traditional media filters. Timely infomercials, town hall meetings, and television talk-show appearances sparked grass-roots efforts which got him on the ballot in all 50 states. Savvy media consultants, pollsters, and other political experts-for-hire have the know-how to rapidly build the necessary organizational structure. Then add to this mix new political tools such as 1-800-numbers, direct mail, and the Internet, and what results is a dramatic dilution of the effect of regional politics and party machinery...
Over the past few years, some parents and their pediatricians have waged a grass-roots effort to change the way 4 million U.S. children are vaccinated each year. Their struggle has reawakened a 40-year-old scientific argument between two giants of preventive medicine: Dr. Albert Sabin and Dr. Jonas Salk. Last week the parents' campaign reached the highest levels of health policymaking when a CDC panel voted on whether to change U.S. policy...