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...publicity and acclaim. The steroid scandal is quickly becoming the sport’s Red Scare, and the intervention of Congress is a campaign to seize the moral high ground in the affair and elevate the image of government at the expense of baseball players who have been hamstrung by mistrust...
Each of the few who did make a run for it was hamstrung in some way, such as former Texas Representative Martin Frost, still hurting from a bitter power struggle with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, and former Indiana Representative Tim Roemer, a pro-lifer who voted for George W. Bush's tax cuts and against Bill Clinton's 1993 economic plan...
With so few FTEs and opportunities for advancement, WGS is hamstrung to recruit and retain distinguished professors—and in turn to attract concentrators. “Harvard students tend to seek out big-name professors and frequently consider their scholarly celebrity status a significant draw, and WGS needs to have proper resources and funding to bring such distinguished academics to the committee, and more important, to keep them there,” said Tracy E. Nowski ’07, currently the only full WGS sophomore concentrator. According to WGS Assistant Director Kathleen Coll, there are only...
...penalties and greater search powers, first proposed in 2000, are still being considered by the country's parliament; it could be months before they are in force. Anti-child exploitation groups are aghast. Authorities are "hamstrung at the moment," says Denise Ritchie, of the Stop Demand Foundation. "Here we are in 2005. Why is it taking so long? It should be a slam dunk...
Observers say it's not just his lack of a golden gut for the next big hit or a groundbreaking idea that has hamstrung NBC; it's also arrogance. "NBC's [successful] shows masked their weaker spots, which are now more obvious," says Stacey Lynn Koerner, an executive vice president at ad buyer Initiative Media. "[The Apprentice] made executives more confident, and they didn't address the problem." Now if Zucker can work his magic one more time, he'll really have something to brag about. --Reported by Simon Crittle/New York and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles...