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...Landis scandal is just the latest blow to a sport that has had more than its share lately. First it was Tyler Hamilton, the Olympic winner in Athens, who suspended in 2005 for using illegal blood transfusions. Then came Roberto Heras, the 2005 Tour of Spain winner who tested positive for EPO (a substance that increases the number of red cells to expand the oxygen-carring capacity of the blood) later and was disqualified and banned for two years. Then Ivan Basso, the Italian who dominated the 2006 Giro de Italia and was expelled, along with two others, from this...
...Moreover, freeway fracases over everything from neighborhood preservation to roadside billboards echo long-standing national conversations that reach back to our republic's dawn. Long before Ike's fountain pen in 1956 inscribed these red-roads into our Rand-McNally pages, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton sparred over how to balance democracy, freedom and commerce in American lives. Put another way, even as history's odometer this season rolls up the Interstates' 50th anniversary, these roads still take us on a multi-lane tour of our murkiest feelings about home and travel, the near and the distant, the here...
...again with the hostages in tow. Instead, a Delta Force chopper collided on the runway with a C-130 transport plane that had 44 Delta troops inside, and eight soldiers died in the fireball. When word of the failed mission reached the White House, notes Bowden, Hamilton Jordan, Carter's chief of staff, "ducked into the president's bathroom and vomited...
...formula for writing a successful book about the American Revolution is no mystery. Choose a Founding Father--Washington, Hamilton, Adams--venerate him for a few hundred pages, and in no time you're on the best-seller list. O.K., it's not that simple, but you get the picture. Patriotic content equals readership appeal...
...members asked Fashir and Osman whether international divestment from Sudan would hurt civilians rather than the government. But Osman said “divestments will only increase the pressure and accelerate the process of the international communities’ progress” in aiding Sudan. Event coordinator Rebecca J. Hamilton, a student at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government, added that, unlike in other situations, economic sanctions against the government would probably have little effect on the citizens of Darfur. “With the government of Sudan, it’s not as though...