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...Olympics. In filing a wrongful-termination lawsuit, Dr. Wade Exum, director of the U.S.O.C.'s drug-control unit for nine years before he stepped down under pressure last month, charged among other things that his bosses systematically covered up illicit drug use. "In recent years, absolutely no sanction has been imposed on roughly half of all the American athletes who have treated positive for prohibited substances," Exum alleged. He said that his tests had turned up "scores" of athletes using strength-building testosterone but that no one had been punished. The U.S.O.C. said Exum's charges were hogwash...
...Olympics. In filing a wrongful-termination lawsuit, Dr. Wade Exum, director of the U.S.O.C.'s drug-control unit for nine years before he stepped down under pressure last month, charged among other things that his bosses systematically covered up illicit drug use. "In recent years, absolutely no sanction has been imposed on roughly half of all the American athletes who have treated positive for prohibited substances," Exum alleged. He said that his tests had turned up "scores" of athletes using strength-building testosterone but that no one had been punished. The U.S.O.C. said Exum's charges were hogwash...
...credit-card billing addresses in chasing tax revenues. That, he observes, is likely to run afoul of credit-card companies that want no part in releasing information for tax purposes. Nor is it at all clear how European tax authorities could audit the flow of international e-commerce or sanction those that don't levy...
...sensationalist press was in lurid bloom. The Know-Nothing party flourished on nativist paranoias and disgust with immigrants. In a prose tract called "The Eighteenth Presidency!", Whitman referred to politicians as "pimps," "excrement," and "serpentine men." Slavery had the sanction...
...Word on a striker's placard, perhaps 34. Euro forerunner 35. Money obtained as political patronage 36. Holder of Nixon's "smoking gun" 37. AC rating units 38. Org. in the movie Michael Collins 40. Site of controversial May 28 presidential runoff 42. Specter may seek a sanction against him over the fund-raising scandal 44. Neighbors of radii 48. They're sometimes put on 49. Gene, who is advising Clinton on an economic plan for impoverished areas 52. Rebels demanded this Fijian President step down 53. Henley crewman 54. James in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...