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...That same winter, with the party raging at full throttle, one man rose up and basically announced the whole damn thing was a fraud. Rick Helling, a 27-year-old righthanded pitcher and the players' representative for the Texas Rangers, stood up at the winter meeting of the Executive Board of the Major League Baseball Players Association and made an announcement. He told his fellow union leaders that steroid use by ballplayers had grown rampant and was corrupting the game...
...hands and allowed me the freedom to try and make a play. I turned the corner and Jeremy was wide open.”Despite struggling with a severe ankle injury the entire game, Lin was still out there, and when the ball came to him, he rose up and let it fly.The drama riding on this one shot was palpable. Harvard had not won at the Palestra since the 1990-’91 season, the team was in danger of sliding closer to the bottom of the Ivy League standings with a loss, and Lin was taking...
...delinquent by one measure - a large number, but just half a percent more than in December. By contrast, the number of delinquent loans in the top tier (752 or higher), jumped by nearly 7% in January. The overall percentage of problem loans remained small by comparison - the delinquency rate rose from 1.45% to 1.55% - but the quickening pace of homeowners falling behind on their payments signifies more trouble ahead. "Those are tomorrow's foreclosures," says Ted Jadlos, senior managing director of LPS, which provided the numbers from its database of 40 million home loans, which covers about...
...Grand Canyon in blazing sunshine. There are also some CGI horses—which kind of resemble the stampeding Gallimimus from “Jurassic Park,” except much lamer—and a bizarre repeating habit where Miley throws a rose, her coat and not one but two boots over her shoulder. Dear Miley: it’s only lucky when you throw salt over your shoulder. And a casual disregard for your clothing doesn’t make you a diva. So, while for Miley it may be “all about the climb...
...majority, to the citizens of this nation who look on art dubiously, but rather because the potential of backlash highlights the grim predicament that the arts currently face. Right now, we are stranded in the midst of the recession. Brandeis is liquidating its art holdings and closing its Rose Art Museum. The publishing industry is disappearing faster than Bernard Madoff’s money. And, as we descend further into economic chaos, the situation of the arts can only be supposed to get worse. We must make our case not just that we need the money...