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...LOUIS: Once again, history got itself a nice round number -- courtesy of Mark McGwire. With all due respect to the wild-card playoff game that Sammy Sosa and the Cubs will play against the San Francisco Giants on Monday, the 162-game regular season is over, and so is the historic 1998 home run race. Mark McGwire did that with four staggering blasts in two days, leaving his comrade-in-forearms Sammy blinking in the dust and trying to help his Cubs find their way into the playoffs. Any Sosa comeback now in his extra nine innings is practically...
...guides, seminars, AARP pharmacy service and travel benefits, among other delights. (Thanks to direct mailings like these, Modern Maturity is actually the largest circulation magazine in the United States.) Oh, and how could I forget? I also received my very own membership identification code, along with a little white card with my name and home address--lest I forget where I live--and the business address of the Executive Director, you know, my new friend Horace--lest I forget where to send my moulah...
...have to wonder about this letter: Did I really deserve to earn my stripes so early? After all, the AARP only invited my father to join when he turned 50, and I will have only two decades under my belt by next week. Ah, me, what a birthday card. Is this the cue to stop looking forward to birthdays? MELISSA ROSE LANGSAM
Collins had been a fully-licensed tarot card reader in Cambridge for several years, Fleming said. It is not known if she is licensed in Boston...
...than a home run record on the line this week as Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire head into 1998's home stretch. Sosa is mired in an 0-17 slump after hitting his 63rd last Wednesday, and his Cubs have fallen a game behind the Mets in the wild-card race. The good news for Sosa is that he faces his favorite pitching staff -- that of the hapless Milwaukee Brewers -- Tuesday and Wednesday. McGwire, still miffed about that homer that was stolen from him on Sunday, has a two-dinger lead as his Cardinals host Houston for a pair. Edge...