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Powerful forces are marshaled on both sides of the debate (and in the middle). The union is fighting to limit the number of players whose steroid tests the government can subpoena. The owners--grateful for the home-run explosion that helped put fans back in the seats after the bitter 1994 strike but worried that fans will cry foul over steroid use--have assumed their familiar duck-and-cover stance. And Bush, a former co-owner of the Texas Rangers, is reportedly trying to organize a steroids summit. Tony Serra, Anderson's lawyer, argues Bonds is a "trophy martyr." Says...
DIED. MARGE SCHOTT, 75, controversial philanthropist and former owner of the Cincinnati Reds; in Cincinnati, Ohio. As a wealthy widow, Schott bought the baseball team in 1984, but she knew little about the sport; she once settled a contract dispute by flipping a coin. Reds executives accused her of using racial and ethnic slurs. In a 1992 interview she said, "Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far." Several similarly offensive comments followed, and in 1999, under pressure from the team's limited partners, Schott sold her controlling interest. To many in the city she remained beloved...
Since selling alcohol to four underage Harvard undergraduates one month ago and being arrested for the offense, the owner of Louie’s Superette, Cheng-san Chen, has been under scrutiny from the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) and the Cambridge Licensing Commission (CLC). The beloved shop, a figure at the corner of Cowperthwaite and Surrey Streets since 1987, may be forced to close...
HMC’s recent purchases have made Harvard the second largest forest owner in New Zealand...
...long after UN sanctions forbade it. Putin recently instructed his defense industry to pursue technologies that would allow Russian missiles to confound the Bush administration's planned missile-defense shield, thereby maintaining the deterrent capability of Moscow's own strategic arsenal. The arrest late last year of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, owner of the massive Yukos oil company, was interpreted by some as a sign that the former KGB colonel-turned-President even planned to reassert state control over the economy...