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Just when it seems it couldn't get any worse for Marty McSorley, it does. After delivering a two-handed slash to Donald Brashear of the Vancouver Canucks on Feb. 21, the Boston Bruins enforcer, goon, strong-man--call him what you will--was slapped with the harshest penalty ever given by the National Hockey League (NHL), and was suspended for the rest of the season. Since then, he has been demonized, vilified and chastised by the horrified public and has become for some the embodiment of everything wrong with hockey. Even his fellow players have lashed out against...
...accusation followed a week-long investigation by Vancouver police, and formally moved the attack from the jurisdiction of professional sports into the realm of criminal justice. The necessity of this action is questionable; McSorley's suspension has already cost him $72,000, and it is unlikely he will ever play hockey professionally again. He has expressed his regrets and has apologized profusely. Furthermore, Brashear will most likely follow up with a civil suit of his own. So is a jail term really necessary...
...they fortify the e-commerce Bastille to fight off the onslaught of Internet-propagated Anglophones, we look on with amused disbelief. "Let them say 'start-up'" is a much less contemptuous call to arms than "let them eat cake" ever...
...Stuart Buck ever met Bishop Spong or heard him speak? (Op-Ed, March 6). He sounds as if he is rehashing a compendium of lies, rumors and poisonous innuendo circulated by a politically motivated faction of "Christians." If the purpose of the Noble lectures is to help students of Harvard discover Jesus, then the committee was quite right to invite Bishop Spong to speak...
...Vanishing Voter project is an unprecedented effort to track voter engagement--a yearlong series of weekly nationwide polls. Kalb said that no such project has ever been undertaken...