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...death late one February night on a conservative radio talk show. I’ll never forget what one of the commentators said. He kept repeating, “Aren’t boxers supposed to be tough?” Callers then chimed in, calling Turpin weak and unmanly. These people don’t know what tough...
...course, the radio show commentator and callers weren’t calling Turpin weak because of his background. They were calling him weak because he killed himself. To them, suicide was a sign of fragility. It is not, and I know because I have battled depression myself...
...sell expensive, unsuitable financial products—insurance, mutual funds, loans—to young, unsophisticated members of in the armed services,” Henriques wrote in an e-mail last night. “[It’s] a problem that has persisted for decades because of weak oversight by Congress and the Pentagon...
During 11 hours of testimony, the House reform committee further embarrassed the game by making baseball answer for its weak steroid policy. Baseball officials told skeptical committee members that the current policy represents progress, since the sport inexplicably had no policy until 2002. But baseball still falls woefully short compared with other sports. In the NFL, players are tested randomly in and out of season, and first-time abusers miss a quarter of a season. Baseball players miss 10 days, or about 5% of the season--and the legislators were incensed to learn about language that allowed a fine instead...
AOL’s terms of service are written by lawyers being paid by AOL, accountable to AOL executives. Apart from the (relatively weak) possibility that this particular contract wouldn’t hold up to judicial scrutiny because it wasn’t displayed in a sufficiently prominent place or because it violates in some technical way an obscure subsection of an obscure decades-old law, there is no recourse against any decision AOL makes to exercise the rights they’ve granted themselves. After all, you agreed to give AOL these rights in exchange...