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Byline: Mark Starr, With Mark Hosenball
When president Bush unexpectedly devoted a chunk of his January State of the Union address to railing against performance-enhancing drugs in sports, it seemed to many like an oddball detour from the terror-focused speech. Why take time to lecture about a lesser scourge that is already widely known and universally condemned, but seemingly impossible to stop?
Last week John Ashcroft answered the question. In a televised press conference, the attorney general announced a sweeping 42-count indictment against four men, charging them with conspiracy in a major doping ring. The names Ashcroft read out are well-known, if controversial, figures only within the...
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