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...wake of the testimony given last Thursday on steroids in Major League Baseball, accusations of cheating and betraying the popular trust are being continuously flung at a handful of muscled targets. The iconic figures of the sport’s recent post-strike resurgence—McGwire, Barry Bonds, and Sammy Sosa, among others—have fallen under the shadow of a suspicion that threatens to destroy their reputations and place a more permanent and shameful asterisk than the one that was applied to Maris’ 61 next to the bloated offensive records of the last 10 years...
...students launched their hunger strike at 3 p.m. yesterday afternoon, just hours after a U.S. district court judge in Tampa rejected a motion from Schiavo’s parents that would have forced caretakers to reinsert the feeding tube...
...feel [Schiavo] is being unjustly starved to death,” said Divinity School student Bronwen Catherine McShea ’02, explaining her motivation for organizing the strike. “I wanted the press to pick this up, just for people to be aware of Terry Schiavo’s situation...
McShea, in an e-mail message urging others to join the strike, wrote that “we think it is more than coincidental that this horrendous battle over Terri Schiavo’s life is occurring during Holy Week, when we remember the suffering and death of Jesus of Nazareth...
...strike broke a stalemate that had lasted since Corriero tied the game just 38 seconds into the third period. On that goal, the second of the team’s two scores at 5-on-3, Corriero cleaned up the rebound from a Vaillancourt slapshot and tucked it past Clark to knot the contest...