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To my Conservative Friends: I digress for a day from discussing Conservative issues and liberal tooling to comment on the steroid use in baseball and how it has destroyed the legacy of our great game... Unless you have just emerged from under a rock somewhere, you know that the best player in the game, Alex Rodriguez, just admitted that he used banned substances between the years 2001 and 2003. In a very emotional interview yesterday with respected baseball man Peter Gammons, A-Rod almost broke down several times as he copped to his transgressions and apologized several times to the fans...

MANGALORE: ‘‘Culture is nothing but a way of life and Bunts’ culture which is thousands of years old is losing hold owing to various reasons,’’ said Bangalore-based industrialist and litterateur D.K. Chouta in his welcome address at a seminar on ‘Role of Bunts in the changing universe’ held at A.B.Shettynagar as part of the World Bunts Convention on Saturday. Chouta cited the example of the Roman empire which was destroyed owing to the excesses committed by its citizens over a course of time. ‘‘Pursuit of wealth is the main cause for the downfall of the Bunt culture,’’ he said.New York-based...