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Word: edward (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Both McGwire, with 70 home runs, and Sosa, with 66, blew away the record 61 home runs of Roger Maris that had stood as the standard for 37 years. America was captivated by the two huge men and the great home-run race. Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, praised McGwire and Sosa as the "home-run kings for working families in America." McGwire, with forearms the size of a grown man's neck, 17 inches around, was a gate attraction unto himself, a modern wonder of the world. Ballparks opened their gates early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Warned Baseball About Steroids | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...very helpful, adding that “the revised draft will reflect the feedback we received.” The reaccreditation process will culminate Oct. 18 through 21, when a NEASC delegation, headed by Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia, will visit campus. —Staff writer Edward-Michael Dussom can be reached at emdussom@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Edward-michael Dussom, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CCL Reviews Student Life Report | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...little disappointments, followed by a twist of the knife that makes it just that much worse. For instance, one classic submission reads, “Today, my girlfriend dumped me proclaiming she wanted someone more like her ‘Edward’. I asked her who Edward was. She held up a copy of her ‘Twilight’ book. She was talking about a fictional vampire. FML.”Unfortunately, few of the stories are so unambiguously amusing. A distressing number recount long periods of time in which the only person to contact the poster...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The Awkward Stage | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...month of bad public relations for the Vatican, the opportunity to name a replacement for the retiring and less-than-media-friendly Cardinal Edward Egan, 76, Archbishop of New York, was a godsend. The man announced on Monday to lead the archdiocese arrives well equipped for the job. Timothy Dolan, 59, who has been in charge of the Milwaukee Archdiocese since 2002, has long been considered among the most likable and loquacious senior American prelates. In the late 1990s, while serving as rector of the Pontifical North American College, the largest English-speaking seminary in Rome, he was a major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York's New Archbishop: A Winning Papal P.R. Move | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Seven years later, Washington celebrated the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center, a white marble extravaganza designed by Edward Durrell Stone, the era's go-to guy for Establishment swank. Within a single vast building, it held three theaters and a grand foyer that's one of the biggest rooms in the world. But it was also cut off from the city behind a rat's nest of roads and highways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lincoln Center's New Come-Hither Design | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

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