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...Second, respecting the peaceful nuclear rights of such an egregious cheater as Pyongyang can hardly help the international campaign to dissuade Iran from building nuclear weapons under the cover of an energy program. As one Indian security analyst put it, "Why should India back Washington's effort to refer Iran's nuclear misbehavior to the United Nations?" North Korea withdrew from the NPT, made bombs, and has a covert uranium enrichment program it denies exists?yet Washington has affirmed its right to nuclear power plants. Why not treat Iran?an NPT member with an internationally inspected, overt enrichment program...
...needs to be eliminated. But all those who watched the hearings could not help but feel a pang of sympathy for McGwire, who after his painful testimony has gone from a loved, classy hero to Public Enemy Number One. The former Home Run King has been called a cheater, even though he was well within his rights in denying answering questions about steroid use. If indeed McGwire juiced up, critics should consider the lack of a ban before 2002, as well as the highly ambiguous and unproven effects of steroids on actual performance, before throwing Big Mac off of baseball?...
...peppered the arena with scoldings aimed at one disobedient player, who he referred to as “yellow-shirt,” and who Special Assistant for Social Programming Zachary A Corker ’04 later a called a “serial cheater...
...faithfully pose a whole different set of challenges. Leaving aside the monster parents who seem to have been born to torment the teacher, even "good" parents can have bad days when their virtues exceed their boundaries: the eager parent who pushes too hard, the protective parent who defends the cheater, the homework helper who takes over, the tireless advocate who loses sight of the fact that there are other kids in the class too. "I could summarize in one sentence what teachers hate about parents," says the head of a private school. "We hate it when parents undermine the education...
...steroids the exception? One obvious answer is that sports are supposed to be fair in a way that life is not. But sports are full of institutionalized unfairness--ask anyone who's ever rooted against the Yankees. Olympic runner wins a gold medal because of blood doping: Cheater! Olympic team wins dozens of medals because it has tens of millions of dollars for training: U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! In the steroid debate, what's often cited is fairness, not to current players but to the records of retired and dead ones. Yet middling athletes of today routinely outdo greats...