Word: humanize
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...athletes, of course, the stumbling block is equal enforcement: There is no reason for one swimmer, for example, to give up her human growth hormone (an increasingly popular supplement for which there currently are no tests) unless she has a guarantee that everyone she's competing against will also be clean. And at this point athletes have no such confidence. If, however, every single athlete is bound by the rules of some legitimate authority figure - i.e., other than the IOC-run World Anti-Doping Agency, currently the reigning arbiter of drug policy - there might be some impetus for clean competition...
...While happy to hobnob with all sorts of leaders whose human rights records are every bit as odious as Castro's - and despite the fact that the U.S. periodically negotiates with his government on issues ranging from immigration to drug interdiction - this White House, like its seven predecessors, makes a point of publicly shunning the Cuban leader. Thus Crowley went out of his way to emphasize Thursday that Castro would not be welcome at President Clinton's gala event for world leaders at the Metropolitan Museum. Last time Clinton left the Cuban leader off his guest list, Castro upstaged...
...Aikman (out with his ninth (!) career concussion) equals no fun in Dallas, where Jerry Jones may already be thinking about who's going to be his next coach, and fans may already be thinking about whether they should switch allegiance to the new franchise starting up in Houston. The human capacity for avoidance is a wonderful thing, but after the Cowboys lose in Arizona to the lowly Cardinals there will be no avoiding the fact that there's going to be little fun in Big D this season...
...fear is that it may drag Washington into the quagmire of the ongoing civil war. After all, the guerrillas and their supporters may be tempted to retaliate for Washington's involvement by directly attacking U.S. personnel, which would tend to prompt the Pentagon to expand its commitment. And the human rights record of the Colombian military Washington is currently re-equipping and training certainly won't win any prizes - many of its officers have been widely reported to be working hand in glove with the paramilitary groups responsible for a number of massacres of civilians...
...most troublesome issue remains the political rules that govern such interventions. After all, the principle of sovereignty and non-interference in any member state's internal affairs is one of the U.N.'s cornerstones, even if it sometimes operates in conflict with the lofty human rights principles of the organization's charter. And the Cold War-era structure of the Security Council that gives veto power to five permanent members - Russia, China, France, Britain and the U.S. - militates against rapid intervention. China, for example, has a history of nixing any operation that it perceives as interference in the internal affairs...