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Friday, March 24, 2006

Giants left fielder Barry Bonds holds the record for the most home runs in a single season, but his reputation is in tatters. In 2004, two reporters published an account of how Bonds relied on a complicated program of performance-enhancing steroids. Now they’ve published a book on doping in sports. Also: Florida's merit-pay initiative, Freud and antidepressants, and your calls.

The Pill and the Couch

Hara Estroff Marano, editor at large for Psychology Today
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Dr. Augustus John Rush, psychiatrist and professor of biomedical science at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
- on Freud and antidepressants

» Psychology Today
» Dr. Augustus ...

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It's All in the Game

Lance Williams, investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and coauthor, Game of Shadows : Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports (Gotham Books 2006)
and
Mark Fainaru-Wada, investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and coauthor, Game of Shadows : Barry Bonds, BALCO, ...

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Merit Pay, Florida's Way

Matthew Pinzur, education correspondent for the Miami Herald,
- on a plan to link teacher pay and bonuses to students' performance on standardized tests

» Teachers' merit pay up for vote today" by Matthew Pinzur in the Miami Herald

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Open Phones

Your calls on freedom of expression, self-censorship, and the play "My Name is Rachel Corrie"

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Attaboy Schumer!

Wonkette introduces a West Highland Terrier named for Senator Chuck Schumer. We always thought of him as more of a Schnauzer.


Don't forget to tune in to my Sunday press conference!

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Feedback: Rachel Corrie and the limits of theater

Subject: Viner's (?) positon is absolutely correct. This is a work of art.
Viner's (?) positon is absolutely correct. This is a work of art.

I find the idea of "context" development, "community outreach", etc to be red herrings. The aim here is obviously censorship by a group of people opposed to the airing of the play and its perspective.
-BI

Subject: RACHEL CORRIE
America is about freedom of speech. The Left wing anti-Semitic crowd
has every right to be able to glorify the life of a terrorist
collaborator like Rachel who gave her life to protect the tunnels
feeding the terrorist network in Gaza.

-MF

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[listen to our call in on "My Name is Rachel Corrie" from 3/24/06]

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