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...indictment in Salt Lake overshadowed other news from a Denver courtroom that may ultimately prove far more troublesome for the Olympics. In filing a wrongful-termination lawsuit, Dr. Wade Exum, director of the U.S.O.C.'s drug-control unit for nine years before he stepped down under pressure last month, charged among other things that his bosses systematically covered up illicit drug use. "In recent years, absolutely no sanction has been imposed on roughly half of all the American athletes who have treated positive for prohibited substances," Exum alleged. He said that his tests had turned up "scores" of athletes using...
...inmate choosing execution strikes many in both the pro-choice and pro-life movements as too barbaric to contemplate. (Pro-life advocates would say that legalized abortion is itself a state-sanctioned execution.) But what is the alternative to allowing that choice? The continued chipping away at Roe v. Wade. Instead of stripping female prisoners of their identity as human beings and making decisions for them, we could avoid this awful dilemma by taking much more basic action and abolishing the death penalty altogether...
...foundation is as spartan in structure and style as an Internet start-up. There are just 25 employees, in contrast to 525 for the venerable Ford Foundation. The Gates Foundation staff members wade through more than 3,000 serious funding requests each month. And that doesn't count the perpetual-motion machines and colonic-cleansing devices with which promoters could save the world if only Bill and Melinda would throw a few million dollars their way. Worthy projects are filtered up by Stonesifer, Dr. Gordon Perkin and Bill's dad for review by Bill and Melinda...
...Assuming Kennedy settles back into the pro-choice camp, if Stevens and O'Connor step down during a Bush presidency and are replaced by pro-life Justices, the 6-to-3 majority in favor of choice would become a 5-to-4 majority in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade...
...anti-abortion majority. Joined by the more predictable ranks of Justices Scalia, Thomas and Rehnquist, Kennedy wrote a scathing rebuttal to the majority opinion, in which he lambasted the Court's interpretation of its own ruling in the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey case, which upheld Roe v. Wade. Kennedy, a contributor to the 1992 majority opinion, has apparently been overtaken by serious reservations as he considers the future of abortion in America - leading many to wonder if an anti-abortion plurality could be looming on the horizon...