Problem: (CNN) -- Mark McGwire deserves a ban from baseball more than any sympathy.

It is sad to hear his quavery confession of a career filled with steroids, his sorrow over the pain it caused his family and fans, his revelation of a life of lies that burned inside him like a hidden disease and consumed the game he loved.

But for those of us who also love baseball, the damage he did was too deep and his further threat to the integrity of the game is too great to justify his return.

McGwire's entire playing career is indelibly stained and his judgment is not to be trusted. What else are we to make of a man who cheated and didn't come clean for 20 years? Can he be trusted to coach other players who may be using steroids? Is he fit for any job that is also a test of character and personal standards? Baseball should bar him from coaching and never again allow his name on a Hall of Fame ballot.

St. Louis manager Tony La Russa, McGwire's longtime apologist, is leading the charge to rehabilitate him in his new role as the Cardinals' batting coach, saying Monday's admission and expression of regret is worthy of respect.

This from a manager who either closed his eyes to drug use on his teams, didn't know what he should have known, or kept conspiratorially silent about it through all the years with McGwire on the Oakland Athletics (along with Jose Canseco) and on the Cards.
1. Which sport does Mark McGwire play?
2. What drugs did he use?
3. Is he sad about that?
4. Whom did he cause pain?
5. Who else?
6. How long was it until he confessed?
7. Does the author think he should be in the Hall of Fame?
8. What about being a coach?
9. Who is the manager of St. Louis?
10. Does he support McGwire?
Answer: 1. baseball
2. steroids
3. yes
4. his family
5. fans
6. 20 years?
7. no
8. no
9. Tony La Russa
10. yes

Problem: One month before the Winter Olympics begin in the Russian resort town of Sochi -- and in the shadow of last month's deadly bombings in Volgograd -- a huge security operation has swung into gear.

A special exclusion zone went into force Tuesday under which only Sochi-marked vehicles, emergency or specially accredited intelligence service cars will be allowed into the wider Sochi area.

Air traffic and sea access will be restricted, and everyone going into the zone will have to go through heavy security and identity checks.

Russia is pouring huge resources into ensuring that the Games, seen as a flagship project of President Vladimir Putin, go off without incident.

Two bombings in 24 hours last month in Volgograd, one targeting the city's main train station and the second a trolley bus, raised concerns of a potential threat to the Sochi event.

No group has to date claimed responsibility for the attacks, but suspicion has fallen on Chechen separatist groups.

A bitter battle for an independent Chechnya, lasting almost two decades, spawned an insurgency that has spilled into neighboring republics in the North Caucasus region, including Dagestan.

Chechen warlord Doku Umarov, leader of the Islamist Caucasus Emirate group, last summer called on his followers to do what they can to disrupt the Games. He claims they will be held on the graves of Muslim occupants of Sochi, who he says were driven out by Russian imperial forces in the 19th century.

Despite the shockwaves of the Volgograd attack, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said he was confident that Russia would keep the Winter Olympics safe.
1. What event is upcoming?
2. Which organization runs it?
3. Who is in charge of that group?
4. What's his position?
5. Where are the Olympics being held?
6. Which is in what country?
7. Is it an urban location?
8. Who is the leader of Russia?
9. How many bombings were there?
10. How much time passed between them?
11. Where were the explosions?
12. In what city?
13. Has anyone been arrested?
14. Who is thought to have done it?
15. How long has the struggle in Chechnya gone on?
16. What region are they in?
17. Who is a leader in the struggle?
18. What organization is he in?
19. Is he in charge of that?
20. Who used to live in Sochi?
Answer: 1. the Winter Olympics
2. International Olympic Committee
3. Thomas Bach
4. Committee President
5. Sochi
6. Russia
7. no
8. Vladimir Putin
9. Two bombings
10. 24 hours
11. one targeting the city's main train station and the second a trolley bus
12. in Volgograd
13. No
14. Chechen separatist groups
15. almost two decades
16. the North Caucasus region
17. Doku Umarov
18. the Islamist Caucasus Emirate group
19. yes
20. Muslim occupants

Problem: CHAPTER XX--NO. 5 CHEYNE ROW

Frank had brought home the Life of Carlyle, and Maude had been dipping into it in the few spare half-hours which the many duties of a young housekeeper left her. At first it struck her as dry, but from the moment that she understood that this was, among other things, an account of the inner life of a husband and a wife, she became keenly interested, and a passionate and unreasonable partisan. For Frederick and Cromwell and the other great issues her feelings were tolerant but lukewarm. But the great sex-questions of 'How did he treat her?' and of 'How did she stand it?' filled her with that eternal and personal interest with which they affect every woman. Her gentle nature seldom disliked any one, but certainly amongst those whom she liked least, the gaunt figure of the Chelsea sage began to bulk largely. One night, as Frank sat reading in front of the fire, he suddenly found his wife on her knees upon the rug, and a pair of beseeching eyes upon his face.

'Frank, dear, I want you to make me a promise.'

'Well, what is it?'

'Will you grant it?'

'How can I tell you when I have not heard it?'

'How horrid you are, Frank! A year ago you would have promised first and asked afterwards.'

'But I am a shrewd old married man now. Well, let me hear it.'

'I want you to promise me that you will never be a Carlyle.'
1. Who brought home the life of Carlyle?
2. Who had been dipping into it?
3. What did she understand it was an account of?
4. What was the promise that was made near the end?
5. Who said he was a shrewd old man now?
6. Whas Maude liked by most people?
7. What was Frank doing in fromt of the fire?
8. What was said Frank would of done a year ago?
9. What were her feelings for Frederick and Cromwell?
10. but what?
Answer:
1. Frank
2. Maude
3. the inner life of a husband and a wife,
4. you will never be a Carlyle.'
5. Frank
6. yes
7. reading
8. promised first and asked afterwards.'
9. tolerant
10. lukewarm.