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Shorter and Masback share the opinion that athletes will accept any playing field that is level."If sport were clean, the athletes would happily compete on that new level, even without setting records," claims Shorter. "I think we can make this look like a quirk of history. I think we can go from several generations who were predisposed to cheat to a new generation that says, 'Cheating...
Nearly every politician in Washington agrees that the marriage penalty is unfair. Who could think otherwise? The penalty--a quirk in the tax code that forces some married couples to pay higher taxes than they would if they were single--seems to make as much sense as a tax on baseball or apple pie. Here's how the penalty works: If a man and woman, each making $60,000, fall in love and marry, they will be pushed into a higher tax bracket. The $120,000 couple will pay a higher rate than the two singles would have. It seems...
...that inning, B.C. got singles from its first three batters, producing one run and putting runners at the corners. Eagles right fielder Mike Quirk then hit a sacrifice fly to center to bring home the tying...