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ROGER MARIS has an asterisk next to his name in the baseball record book because the commissioner of the game changed the schedule...
...course, ten days is a lot of time. But in addition to preparing for finals during reading period, add two 10- to 15-page papers. Then add one or two supplementary reading assignments of 300 pages. Ten days suddenly is not so much time. Now, how about an asterisk for the transcript...
...runs in a single season, breaking the record 60 set by Babe Ruth in 1927; of lymphatic cancer; in Houston. As the homers piled up, he grimly endured hostile media attention and threats from fans who did not want the revered Ruth's achievement overturned; Maris' record carries an asterisk, since it was set in a 162-game season, which was eight games longer than the schedules of Ruth...
...display last week in Medford, Ore. To watch it closely was to see what had confounded and beset Walter Mondale for months. As the President mesmerized the crowd of 5,000, Darman closely followed a text labeled "core speech." He noted every line that drew applause with an asterisk and every line that drew a laugh with the notation "HA." Happy faces glowed in the pink sunset. About the only tense listener was Dale Schuman, owner of the Magic Man costume and fun shop, whose job it was to release the balloons at precisely the right moment. Reagan sounded...
...women-the cycling road races, the marathon, even synchronized swimming-the Games had a strong feminine strain. They also had an unavoidable American flavor. Two of the world's three best teams were missing, after all. The first American gold-medal volleyball team was thoroughly unbothered by the asterisk. Nationalism was rampant but ugliness restrained. The boxing mobs were as sour as the judging: it is probably too soon to tell Evander Holyfield, a U.S. light heavyweight disqualified for not pulling his punches, that in the end this heartache may end up distinguishing him from the crowd of champions...