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...cold morning in the middle of February, the greatest baseball player of his generation faced the press in disgrace. Alex Rodriguez, the all-star third baseman with 560 career home runs—about one for every $500,000 in his $275 million contract—had tested positive for steroids, casting a Bondsian shadow over his Ruthian accomplishments...
...It’s an attitude evident in interactions with the press. In one instance, Sweet falsely accused two Crimson reporters of breaking into the FAS finance office. “This is bigger than your student newspaper,” he said of the importance of keeping budgetary information confidential. “This is bigger than an individual town...
...After coming across what they viewed as a potential conflict of interest in a Medical School class last September, a group of first-year students banded together to press the administration to codify long-standing informal policies—effectively triggering the first set of conversations that would dominate interactions between the opposing student groups...
...issues, showing their concerns, but they also listen," Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Ali Aboul Gheit said of Obama's team during a recent visit to Washington. "I think they are very much different from the Bush Administration." Last month, Jordan's King Abdullah II enthused on Meet the Press, "In the Middle East, this President provides hope ... There's a collective hope that there is a new America." (See Cairo getting ready for Obama...
...outraged at all of this. Congress is being asked to step forward and make up for the sins of others, and no one is accountable." -Calling for a criminal investigation of Wall Street's economic meltdown (The Plattsburgh Press-Republican, October...