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...Austen, Whitman, Dickinson, Dickens, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Borges, Neruda, Pessoa and Beckett. This grouping, Bloom's elite among the elite, holds few surprises: an obligatory academic obscurity (Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa), four women and a majority of D.W.E.M.s. (Bloom gives canonical status to Homer and the major Greek dramatists and philosophers but does not discuss their works at any length because his interests focus on authors who came later. A line must be drawn somewhere, but leaving out the classical foundations of Western written culture may strike some as harsh...
Saturday: After blasting a "sayonara," or game-winning, homer, slugger Hiromoto Okubo of the first-place Yomiuri Giants (Central League) is so overcome with emotion that he bursts into tears on reaching home plate in a 6-4 victory over the Hanshin Tigers. Tuesday: League-leading hitter Ichiro Suzuki, left, of the Orix Blue Wave (second place, Pacific League) smacks the 200th hit of his record-breaking season in a 6-5 win over the Chiba Lotte Marines. Thursday: The Tigers lose again, 4-0, as Chunichi Dragons pitcher Kuo Yuan-tzu becomes only the fifth hurler in besuboru history...
...complete 162-game season to maintain the continuity of its records. Not since the 1930s had baseball witnessed such a fan-friendly display of power hitting as this season. Conspiracy theorists mutter darkly about a livelier ball, while other analysts point to depleted pitching staffs and new homer-haven ball parks. Baseball's most hallowed record, Roger Maris' 61 homers in 1961, was in danger of being eclipsed. Five marquee-idol sluggers (Matt Williams, Ken Griffey, Frank Thomas, Barry Bonds and Albert Belle) were all on target to hit more than 50 home runs. Tony Gwynn -- the last star left...
...halfway to Maris' homer record, and it's only June...
...know, there's a Simpsons episodewhere Homer needs to watch a video about drunkdriving and it's a spoor, really gory and violent.And there's a pan of the audience and everyone isvery disgusted except for Homer, who's laughing,and then they show his thoughts and he's saying'That's funny because it's not me.' I don't knowthese people. It kind of sucks but I'm glad it'snot happening...