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Drugs have so contaminated amateur sport that a radical solution is called for. A modest proposal: Would it make sense to usher in a new era of libertarian athletics - to make everything legal, including anabolic agents, human growth hormones, stimulants, beta-blockers and the rest? The athlete with the best dealer - or best pharmacy - wins? Why not get the narcs out of the Olympics, eliminate the demeaning ambush tests, the sudden preposterous demands for urine samples, and let athletes and coaches govern their behavior, weighing the risks of permanent damage to their bodies against competitive benefits...
During move-in week, a car hit Nicole B. Usher '03 while she was riding her bike in front of the Sheraton Commander. Usher received a broken pelvis in that accident...
Morris--who is the president of a new company called Vote.com--argued that the Internet will soon usher in an era of direct democracy, the sort of democracy Thomas Jefferson dreamed of but found to be impossible...
...culprit was deregulation, which, students of the telephone and airline industries will tell you, doesn't always go according to plan. When states started breaking up one of the last subsidized monopolies a few years back, they hoped to usher in a wave of competition that would lower prices, improve service and increase the system's reliability. Newly liberated customers would be able to choose from a host of suppliers, some of whom generated the power while others just delivered...
...civilization, and then CBS just keeps raking in the ratings for a show whose dominant theme seems to be 'You don't need soap, America! Look at us! Soap-free for almost three weeks and we're surviving just fine!' This is just not the way we wanted to usher in what we thought had the potential to be a maniacally germ-phobic new century...