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...arbitrator's ruling in the Guillen case suddenly carries enormous consequences for the players named in the report. Also, the length of time that Guillen and Gibbons were suspended - 15 days - offer clues as to how baseball might treat past offenders. The length of that suspension corresponds to the rules that were in place for a second positive drug test in 2003 and 2004, the years in which Guillen and Gibbons had already received shipments of performance-enhancing drugs (according to the reports, the shipments stopped in the summer of 2005). So baseball backdated the penalty - if you used...
Here in a Science Center classroom, Amarrah sits beside Woo—tossing her shoulder-length brown hair, drawing an ice cream cone with sprinkles, and chiming in with questions and occasional commentary...
...from quality time with Iowa voters. Nationally, his perceived lack of experience shows up in significantly less support among Democrats most concerned about national security. But this gap virtually disappears in Iowa, where voters have heard him talk about his childhood in Indonesia and field foreign policy questions at length. As for New Hampshire, the same pattern holds: Voters have warmed to Obama and cooled to Clinton...
...marathon for the orchestra, and the performers’ exhaustion was apparent by the end. The evening could have benefited by eliminating Harbison’s “Overture,” as it fit less comfortably with the other two pieces and added unnecessary length to the program as a whole...
...March of 2006. But this is hardly a resounding blow against democracy. It’s hard to imagine a potential voter thinking, “I would have voted. But I just know the candidates too well!” Some take another tack and argue that the length of the campaign season forces out lesser-known candidates without a large war chest to keep them going over so many months. However, this effect is dwarfed by the advantage they receive by getting more time to build momentum from a tiny base of energized supporters—witness...