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...confirmed contact with illegal steroids that sent runners into motion last week to confront the biggest drug scandal in baseball history. Suddenly the most open secret in the sport was out, and it implicated baseball's biggest star and the titanic records he had accumulated. "I will leave no stone unturned in accomplishing our goal of zero tolerance by the start of spring training," vowed Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig in New York City. But that won't be soon enough for Senator John McCain, who upped the outrage meter by vowing that if players and owners...
...latest budget draft hikes the sales tax from 8.75% to 9%, the highest among big U.S. cities. And Daley has backed an idea to fine people caught with small amounts of marijuana instead of arresting them--proof once again that during belt-tightening season, politicians will leave no stone (or stoner) unturned. --By Noah Isackson
Despite many professors’ “gut reaction” against the new term, some say their opinions are not set in stone...
Professor of Psychology Philip Stone suggested the purpose of general education should be to prepare students for an unknown future—”the kind of world we can only begin to see” and that “opens their minds to alternatives...rather than the ubiquitous given...
...made it to Glazer-Capp’s point 41: “Post Shuttle Times.” In a classic case of the interplay between astonishment, rest and Gordon’s vodka, I promptly printed a shuttle schedule and duct-taped it myself to the stone column framing Johnston Gate on my way to an unofficial Moore-Nichols party in the Quad. If only some similarly intoxicated good Samaritans could have added points to the Moore-Nichols platform...