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When Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's home-run record in 1961, commissioner Ford Frick ruled that because Maris' season was eight games longer than Ruth's had been, the new record deserved an asterisk. Today fans wonder whether the slugging records of recent years will require similar caveats because of charges that top players have used anabolic steroids to help them turn fly balls into moon shots...
...Winthrop collection, which will travel in 2003 and 2004, is a little-known but highly significant collection--one of the great American collections in the tradition of those of Isabella Stuart Gardener and Henry Clay Frick...
Designed by Carrere and Hastings, architects of the New York Public Library and the Frick, the Jefferson is known for its stained-glass skylight soaring over the Palm Court lobby and its Grand Staircase, down which countless Southern belles and brides have descended. For almost a century, the 260-room hotel was the center of Richmond social life...
Here's a medical pop quiz: Frick and Frack are friends who sport matching spare tires around their waists. Frick goes to Weight Watchers and loses 30 lbs.; Frack goes to the ice-cream parlor and downs a triple banana split every day for a month. So who will live longer? Anybody with a clue about obesity knows that conscientious Frick has lowered his risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and stroke. Frack has done exactly the opposite...
...allowing Liechtenstein authorities to cooperate with foreign authorities to fight money laundering. The legislature also approved plans to hire new judges, prosecutors and police officers with special knowledge of economic crimes. "We see there is more criminality in the financial sector than we thought," admits Prime Minister Mario Frick. He added that the newly adopted legislation will lift the veil of banking secrecy in suspected money-laundering cases, but would not apply in tax cases...