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...Given the refusal of sports authorities to effectively tackle drug use-and consequent addiction-there's little hope the tide will turn any time soon. Indeed, health-care professionals helping pick up the pieces of lives shattered by doping dependency say the only real hope is that fans stage a revolt-not out of love for the game or the players, but from fear that their children, intent on attaining sporting glory, may wind up with the booby prize of addiction...
...rest of the period, the tide had turned, and left spectators questioning whether the series would turn as well. On the man-advantage, Yale winger Nick Deschenes battled for Captain Ben Stafford's rebound in the slot, knotting the game at three apiece...
...honest, it's a move that makes sense. Harvard is running out of space here in Cambridge. Watertown, Allston and Boston are all getting ready to take up arms to stop the advancing Harvard tide. We now need to look elsewhere for space, and we need bold new ideas to get us there...
...Soviet Union has fallen, because we can be confident they would snap back in the face of a real threat. But Michael Howard, former British Home Secretary, has just started a new group, Atlantic Partnership, precisely because he fears the alliance may suffer permanent damage from a rising tide of special-interest squabbles. Rudolf Scharping, the German Defense Minister, recently declared that the E.U. must set its security policy toward Russia. Americans noticed he didn't say nato. What if the dispute on missile defense grows into divergent stances toward Moscow? What if Europe and the U.S. disagree about...
...somebody who doesn't follow the ins and outs of testing, the events of the past couple of weeks might seem contradictory. First the president of the University of California, Richard Atkinson, made a speech proposing dropping the SAT. It looked as if testing was going into ebb tide, right? Then, a few days later, George W. Bush began his first major address as President by proposing an enormous new federally mandated regime of standardized tests for public schoolchildren, with every student being tested in reading and math every year from third through eighth grade. This would be the first...