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...shot put champion C. J. Hunter may, of course, be innocent. He claims he took the anabolic steroid nandrolone with his iron supplement - that is, accidentally. Hunter's wife, the miraculous Olympian Marion Jones, may be even more innocent still. But somehow having the captain of the old O. J. Simpson dream team standing by did not ease the mind...
...writer-director who is. He has now found a crew of similarly skewed comic co-conspirators and perfected an improvisational technique that permits him to explore - with the sweetest, deadest pan - that place where our visions of glory ought to die for lack of nourishment but somehow survive on the crumbs of hope that drop from the celebrity culture's groaning board...
That would turn out to be the high-water mark of the government's three-year pursuit of Wen Ho Lee. Before Christmas, prosecutors asked Federal Judge James Parker to deny Lee bail and hold him in solitary confinement before trial, lest he somehow communicate to allies or foreign governments how to find the missing tapes or destroy evidence. The government based its plea on testimony from the FBI's chief investigator in the case, Robert Messemer, who said Lee had engaged in a pattern of deceit, misled the government about his contacts with Chinese officials and written letters seeking...
...changing. The children are grown now, and a number are speaking up, telling stories of pain that didn't go away the moment they turned 18 or even 40. A cluster of new books is fueling a backlash, not against divorce itself but against the notion that kids somehow coast through it. Stephanie Staal's The Love They Lost (Delacorte Press), written by a child of divorce, is part memoir and part generational survey, a melancholy volume about the search for love by kids who remember the loss of love too vividly. The Case for Marriage by Linda Waite...
...Mother Markets but at least had the sense to do it with a significant, supply-altering amount of oil - these next 30 days will likely play out like a poker game. Gore, lucky enough to have the Leader of the Free World on his campaign staff, will have to somehow keep a straight face when he says electoral politics had nothing to do with the decision. He's still on record last winter as being opposed to the idea, and he's still got George W. pointing out that the Strategic Oil Reserve was meant for wars and embargoes...