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Can Somebody Charge Some Phillies?
In Baseball news, New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez, three-time MVP and perennial All-Star has admitted to taking steroids. Now Houston Astro, Miguel Tejada may be charged with lying to Congress. Many more players have been named in the Mitchell Report, an effort by Senator George Mitchell to investigate steroid use in baseball, the ramifications of which are still ongoing.
The first order of business should be to get Congress to leave MLB alone. It’s not that they necessarily have more important things to do, they probably don’t. Still as with so many matters, it would be better if Congress stopped poking they heads around in areas in which they don’t know very much. But at the very least, if Congress is going to stay involved in baseball, can’t some Representative or Senator, perhaps someone from Queens, get some Philadephia Phillies charged with steroids or perjury or anything else. New York Mets pitchers and catchers report to spring training in Port St. Lucie, Florida this Friday, February 13.
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October 18, 2009
When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
We were at San Francisco’s BIX last evening, enjoying prosecco, cheese, and a bit of music. A full year of inhabitation in Northern California has unraveled to me no decent venue for proper lounging, but… -
October 9, 2009
D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,… -
September 4, 2009
How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one… -
August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called… -
August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…