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...major league players and managers agreed to begin limited, anonymous testing for steroids. Two years later President George W. Bush took the unprecedented step of condemning steroids in his State of the Union address, saying the use of the "dangerous" drugs in baseball, among other sports, "sends the wrong message - that there are shortcuts to accomplishments, and that performance is more important than character." That same year, standards grew tougher and major leaguers submitted to their first mandatory steroid tests. Under the penalties first introduced for doping in 2005, 12 players were suspended for 10 days each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steroids | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

Cambridge residents can be a sketchy crew, and James W. Lewis may be the sketchiest among them. In 1982, seven people died in the Chicago area because some Tylenol pills they took were laced with cyanide. (CYANIDE!) The case was never solved—and the $100,000 reward offered by Johnson & Johnson for finding the culprit was never claimed. At the time, Lewis became associated with the case because he wrote a letter demanding $1 million from Johnson & Johnson to stop the killings. He spent over a decade behind bars for this act of extortion, but he was never...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Man Behind the Tylenol Cyanide Murders Might Be Living in Cambridge | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

Just over a minute later, the Crimson went ahead for good. Fallstrom took a pass and charged up the right side of the ice, beating Malcolm with a long shot from the faceoff circle to make the score 2-1. Grimshaw and fellow sophomore Daniel Moriarty were credited with assists...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Upsets Fifth-Ranked Yale | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

After the flurry of points, the game took a turn for the more physical. As the Bulldogs grew frustrated with their inability to finish shots, scuffles after the whistle and an onslaught of penalties became commonplace...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Upsets Fifth-Ranked Yale | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

Hathaway started her career in the television series "Get Real" but only began gaining recognition when she took the role of princess-to-be Mia Thermopolis in the 2001 film The Princess Diaries. She subsequently played a supporting role in 2005's critically acclaimed Brokeback Mountain and in 2006's The Devil Wears Prada...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Anne Hathaway Selected for Pudding Woman of the Year | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

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