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...marketing at Jim Beam Brands and a longtime Hain Celestial board member. After an earnings disappointment last fall, Simon gathered about 150 employees at his Long Island, N.Y., headquarters for an inspirational screening of Miracle, the feel-good film about the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team's improbable gold-medal victory. Now he has to hope that Hain, and the budding industry it commands, can likewise reach its full potential...
...steroids the exception? One obvious answer is that sports are supposed to be fair in a way that life is not. But sports are full of institutionalized unfairness--ask anyone who's ever rooted against the Yankees. Olympic runner wins a gold medal because of blood doping: Cheater! Olympic team wins dozens of medals because it has tens of millions of dollars for training: U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! In the steroid debate, what's often cited is fairness, not to current players but to the records of retired and dead ones. Yet middling athletes of today routinely outdo greats...
Abbate received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995, the Dent Medal of the Royal Music Association in 1993 as well as National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for Independent Study and Research...
...steroids the exception? One obvious answer is that sports are supposed to be fair in a way that life is not. But sports are full of institutionalized unfairness-ask anyone who's ever rooted against the Yankees. Olympic runner wins a gold medal because of blood doping: Cheater! Olympic team wins dozens of medals because it has tens of millions of dollars for training: U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! In the steroid debate, what's often cited is fairness, not to current players but to the records of retired and dead ones. Yet middling athletes of today routinely outdo greats...
...Burr was awarded an honorary doctorate in recognition of his service to the University. In 1985, Burr received the Harvard Medal for service to the University and was the Chief Marshal of Harvard’s 350th Anniversary Celebration...