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...that hasn't stopped Selig from playing hardball. A week ago, Jay Gibbons of the Baltimore Orioles and Jose Guillen of the Kansas City Royals were both suspended for 15 days after media reports said they received shipments of human growth hormone after January 2005, when baseball banned the substance. Gibbons apologized for his drug use and accepted the suspension. Guillen filed a grievance through the baseball player's union and an arbitrator will rule on the case...
...executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and a professor at Harvard Law School. “It would be a very good sign for American politics if we saw more young people engage in political discussion,” he added. Jose Antonio Vargas, a political reporter for The Washington Post, believes that the application could even increase the number of young voters. “There’s still plenty of students out there who aren’t politically active, and all it takes now is one click,” he said...
...MBTA spokeswoman Lydia M. Rivera, who added that the transit authority has been testing the system among its employees. Rivera said that the users in the initial, limited launch were signed up on a first-come, first-served basis. Similar programs exist in New York City and Washington, D.C. Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, professor and chairman of the faculty at the Graduate School of Design, calls the new program a “great idea.” “This has to be an improvement, as long as the information is reasonably accurate—that?...
...suitors are whispering sweet nothings in European accents. So far this year, European bigwigs including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and London Mayor Ken Livingstone have come calling, while French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be chief guest at India's Republic Day celebrations next January. On Nov. 30, E.C. President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Union President and Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates will visit New Delhi for the annual E.U.-India summit, a bilateral confab to discuss investment, scientific cooperation and efforts to combat climate change. The participants are expected to announce a joint solar energy project and the formation...
...precisely the threat of non-passage of the trade agreement that has led to the improvement on that investigative front, say Colombian union leaders. "Without that pressure from the U.S. the Colombian government would not be acting to clear up these cases and seek convictions," says Jose Luciano Sanin, director of the Escuela Nacional Sindical, a labor rights group that tracks violence against Colombia's labor movement. "All of a sudden, with this external pressure, impunity in union cases has become a priority because it is a condition for approval...