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...line first always wins. Case closed. This year in track and field, however, the story was anything but black and white. Sports headlines weren’t filled with wins and losses or times and records, rather they were dominated by Victor Conte, Balco and the biggest athletic drug scandal in US history. Conte claimed that 27 athletes, including 15 track and field superstars, a champion boxer and swimmer and several NFL and MLB players, had received illegal athletic aids from San Francisco Bay area supplement maker Balco Laboratories. The mistakes of those few athletes, however, cast a shadow...
...about $250 a month before bonuses and adjustments). For a local official to crack down on corruption can mean that cherished development projects get delayed. Indeed, in Lianjiang, Huang's expos? has stalled the county's first apartment complex financed by outside investors. "If this becomes a big scandal, nobody will want to invest there again," says a senior Party member in Fuzhou, the provincial capital, who has seen minutes of meetings regarding Huang's case...
...dual signature restrictions were enacted in hopes of preventing incidents similar to the 2001 Hasty Pudding Theatrical scandal, when two students stole thousands of dollars from the organization, Kidd said...
...impeachment of a sitting President. Trent Lott, hounded by bloggers for a racist remark originally ignored by the big media, would still be Senate majority leader. Blogs played a critical part in the downfall of Howell Raines, former executive editor of the New York Times, in the Jayson Blair scandal. Blogs created a forum where Times insiders could leak and vent, where critics could ridicule and where Raines' editorship could be rattled until it was scuttled by one wayward reporter. The same kind of Web scrutiny added to the forces that brought down the BBC's leadership in the aftermath...
...represents them? In Canada's June federal elections, the incumbent Liberal Party was chided by voters, and it achieved only a narrow minority win. Most Canadians felt the Liberals were still the most moderate option but believed they had arrogantly abused the people's trust in a recent spending scandal. We now have our government in check once again. Perhaps moderates in the U.S. - both Democratic and Republican - could branch off and form a useful new party that would bring about meaningful change to U.S. politics. Rich Kraemer Toronto Debating His Chances In his viewpoint "The Case For Bush" [Sept...