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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...
...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...
...when numbness in her fingers turned out to be Multiple Sclerosis, a disease that eventually killed her. It was an emotional experience: by that time, my father was playing one of du Pre's cellos - a 1674 Stradivarius - and he was due to use it to perform Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor, a piece of barely restrained mourning that took on added power in the memory of du Pre's playing. "I dedicated the performance to her," my father recalls. "For years after I bought the Strad I could hear Jackie's [artistic] voice when I played...
...policy can change the fact that both property prices and home-ownership rates went off the charts. It is natural for them to come down. "We brought in a class of buyers that shouldn't be in homes at all because they don't have the income," says Edward Leamer, professor of economics at UCLA. "We have to figure out what to do with these folks." There have been ideas on how to return owners to the rent rolls. Last year, for example, Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva proposed changing foreclosure rules to let homeowners petition a judge to let them...
...they’re too hip for their own good and their sound is much sleeker and smoother than their image intimates. So hopefully next time they’ll be able to think of something fresher than just getting walloped for four minutes. —Edward F. Coleman