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My Fellow TCIslanders Now that the hearings have ended, this seems an appropriate time to address the frustrations and concerns many of you have shared with me about the conduct of the ongoing Inquiry into government corruption or other serious dishonesty in our country. I am especially mindful that your feelings in this respect have… Read more.
Here, in part, is how A-Rod attempted to rationalize and excuse his use of steroids yesterday afternoon in an interview with ESPN: When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me and I needed to perform, and… Read more.
The world of Major League Baseball reacted with shock and indignation (again) last weekend after Sports Illustrated outed Alex Rodriguez as one of 104 players who tested positive for steroids in 2003. Rodriguez of course is the New York Yankees’ third baseman, the highest-paid player in baseball (having signed a new 10-year contract just a year ago for… Read more.
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Nothing demonstrates how strong an advocate former VP Dick Cheney was for the Bush Administration’s universally condemned tactics in the war on terror than the fact that he seems more determined than George W. Bush himself to defend them until the day he dies. Indeed, unlike Bush – who had the decency to return to… Read more.
Last year a lower-court judge ruled that Nigerian families who claim that Pfizer used their children as guinea pigs to test new drugs had to file their suits in Nigeria. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York ruled on Friday that they can sue the pharmaceutical giant in U.S. courts after all. … Read more.
There seems no end to the growing list of Chinese products being banned by the US government because they contain deadly toxins. [Caribbean importing Chinese products banned in the USA, TIJ, August 17, 2007] Given the alarms raised in recent years about contaminated Chinese products, one can be forgiven the impression that the contaminated peanut butter… Read more.
THE CATCH ! This is the catch – with only 35 seconds left and 3 points down – that sealed a record-setting sixth Super Bowl victory for the Pittsburg Steelers, 27-23 over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday night. And it is bound to go down in NFL history as one of the greatest catches of… Read more.
Anyone who knows of my interest in competitive swimming will appreciate my profound dismay over the following: Michael Phelps may have disqualified himself not only from making millions more as a sports hero but also from adding to his stash of 14 Olympic gold medals in 2012. Because this picture of him taking a hit… Read more.
My team, the Philadelphia Eagles, lost to the Arizona Cardinals in the NFC Championship game. Therefore, I really have no vested interest in the outcome of this game. Nevertheless, I would like to see the Cardinals win because this would prove as improbable a feat as Obama being elected president of the United States. Also, given how far Kurt Warner had… Read more.
