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...forget about track and field. Jones and Gatlin have taken the sport down. Maybe we should have lost faith back in '88, when Ben Johnson got stripped of his medal in Seoul. Think about it - Johnson, Jones, Gatlin - three Olympic champs, convicted cheaters. Compared to track and field, baseball's steroid struggles seem bush league...
...Leading up to the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, U.S.A. Track and Field will pump up the next generation of stars, and tell us how they'll put all this sorry history behind us. Well, I heard that storyline back in 2004; how, with good conscience, can I buy it again? The world's two top sprinters, Tyson Gay of the United States and Asafa Powell, the 100-meter world record holder from Jamaica, have a nice little rivalry, and you'll hear about it ad nauseam in the months before the '08 games. But it's hard...
...maybe she'll set up another charm offensive, to tell us how she lied because she was scared, how in a way she's a victim of track and field's sordid culture of steroids and suspicion. Like all her performances, I'm sure it will be a doozy, but I, for one, will be skipping that...
...certain degree of urgency may have come to attend Teresa's miracle count. Normally the process of recognizing a saint takes decades or even centuries. But after Mother Teresa's death, Pope John Paul II waived a traditional five-year waiting period, initiating what some have called a "fast-track" canonization process. The first major step, the establishment of her "heroic virtue," proceeded quickly. However, verifiable reports of posthumous miracles have apparently been scarce. Teresa was beatified after the first one in 2003. But on Sep. 5 Teresa's successor, Sister Nirmala, told Agence France Presse that "We are waiting...
...fair, not every historical miracle was earth-shaking or, for that matter, without controversy. Consider St. Antonio de Sant'Anna Galvao, whom Pope Benedict XVI canonized last December. Galvao, who died in 1822 (he was on the slow track) was a Franciscan monk in Sao Paolo who distributed "pills" that were actually folded bits of rice paper bearing the prayer: "After birth, the Virgin remained intact. Mother of God, intercede on our behalf." Believers swallowed them for various ailments. After Galvao's death, nuns in his monastery took up the pill production. According to England's Daily Telegraph...