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...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 of suspicion over athletic competition that grayed the lines of success in every sport—particularly in track and field and at this year’s Olympics...
Often a clean athlete’s biggest fear is that no one will appreciate their hard-earned success as honest. In allowing this suspicion to dominate our sports psyches, we lose two of the most extraordinary traits intrinsic in athletic competition: appreciation of the natural capabilities of the human mind and body and fair play (i.e. that everyone really is starting from the same line...
...DETAINED. ZHAO YAN, 42, Chinese reporting assistant at the Beijing bureau of the New York Times; in Shanghai. The Times reported that Zhao's family received a notice on September 21 from the Beijing State Security Bureau stating he was "in criminal detention under suspicion of illegally providing state secrets to foreigners." New York Times foreign editor Susan Chira said, "We can state categorically that Mr. Zhao has not provided any state secrets to our newspaper...
...technology made it possible to nationalize the sense of community, help people find political soul mates and search for their personal truths online; but the political class also helped peel people apart. Both parties redrew districts to be more politically homogeneous, marginalized their centrists, elevated their flamethrowers, viewed with suspicion anyone who sounded temperate or reached across the aisle. At the same time, the 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, which ended mandatory balanced coverage of politics, gave birth to talk radio, and the television universe splintered between the old networks and the new culture of cable gladiators in which...
...Indonesia's brand of Islam has long been known for its tolerance, and many Javanese are horrified to hear of the suspicion with which many Australians now regard their nation. The fear goes both ways; one pesantren student, asked why he hated Australians, retorts, "because you have banned girls wearing headscarves to school." But Javanese hospitality to strangers endures. Ba'asyir's Ngruki pesantren banned Australian, American and Singaporean journalists after they reported links between the school and members of terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah. But after a special plea by an Indonesian-Muslim journalist, Ba'asyir approves from jail...