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...steroid policy. Baseball officials told skeptical committee members that the current policy represents progress, since the sport inexplicably had no policy until 2002. But baseball still falls woefully short compared with other sports. In the NFL, players are tested randomly in and out of season, and first-time abusers miss a quarter of a season. Baseball players miss 10 days, or about 5% of the season--and the legislators were incensed to learn about language that allowed a fine instead of suspension for first timers. Olympians--facing the gold standard in terms of strictness--are subject to testing...
Diary’s detractors correctly acknowledge that Madea is a crass and unbelievable caricature. What they miss is that her complete lack of verisimilitude is deliberate and critical to the aesthetic that Perry endeavors to create...
...rosy, but still positive, scenario is that this will just add a few more sets of eyes to Harvard’s tenure process, leading to a wider pool of professors from which departments can make appointments. After all, even the most able faculty on departmental hiring committees will miss someone now and then. More bureaucracy might ameliorate this unavoidable problem. Or it might not. It may very well turn out that, in practice, divisional hiring committees, made up of the same sorts of people who staff departmental hiring committees, more often than not come up with the same recommendations...
...Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous opens in theaters March 24. Glad to see the women’s lib movement is alive and well...
Have fun with the bracketology. Pick lots of upsets, and plant yourself in front of the television. If you’re really die-hard, pay $20 online and don’t miss a single game...