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The union's dissolution, while welcomed by the culturally confident Celts, may produce an upper lip-testing identity crisis among the English, who lately find themselves better known for soccer hooliganism and tainted beef than for bus stop queues and dead fish handshakes.
On the NYT op-ed page, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes argues that the solution to last week's huge tainted meat scare and other similar problems with the food supply has been sitting on the shelf ready to go for 40 years.
Tainted Jury
You know sports are getting crazy when the Olympic movement looks tainted by wretched excess and the Super Bowl is actually providing the inspirational story of the week.
Has Newt tainted himself, à la Burton?