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From what I understand, the decision by the International
Olympic Committee to eliminate baseball and softball was most likely
prompted by two problems with American baseball. (Softball, it seems,
was pretty much an innocent [...]
”When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes
infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that
Boston, a seat of academic, political, and cultural liberalism in America,
[...]
WASHINGTON, July 12 – President Bush offered only
a stony silence today when he was asked if he planned to fire Karl Rove,
a senior aide at the center of an investigation over [...]
From the hindsight of history it is often possible
to each a consensus on when and where an empire reaches its high water
mark. The Roman Empire in the 2nd century, the Byzantine Empire a thousand
[...]