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...first thing he did was pick a fight--the one the campaign had been avoiding for months. Kerry's shifting answers on Iraq had become more than a damage-control problem. When the candidate had fallen into Bush's August trap, the truth he had been trying to outrun since he slipped past Howard Dean in the primaries finally caught up with him: his position on Iraq was incomprehensible to anybody who wasn't a regular lunch guest at the Council on Foreign Relations, and it was getting more so every time Kerry tried to explain...
...novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 676 pages), Wolfe has set himself the challenge of chronicling youthful hedonism on a college campus. But at 73, can Wolfe party with the frat boys? Or has America finally outrun its most tireless chronicler...
...hitting (39 homers last year) Vernon Stephens could well put the Sox out of the running. Pennants are never won on paper, and for the past two seasons the Sox have been nosed out of the race on the last day. This year, as last, the Yankees may well outrun them, but no expert would care to guarantee the outcome of the 1950 race ... Ted Williams, never a bawling optimist, figures the Sox have a 50-50 chance ("at the outside"). Says Ted: "I'd sure like for us to get it. It would be one of the greatest thrills...
...penalties. (A spokesman at Tan's Fortune Tobacco didn't return TIME's phone calls seeking comment but his lawyers have consistently denied the charges.) More investigations seem likely. "Businessmen must adopt an attitude of tax acceptance, not tax avoidance," President Arroyo recently lectured. "They must stop trying to outrun the tax collector...
Even if you're the fastest couple in the world, there are certain things you can't outrun--like Johnny Law. So Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery, the sprinting champions, find themselves caught in the center of a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) investigation into steroid use by athletes. Both deny taking banned performance-enhancing drugs, and neither has been formally charged. Still, as the allegations spread all the way up Olympus to the U.S.'s top track-and-field stars, it looks as if either we'll be sending a scandal-tainted team to the Games or those...