Word: mcgwire
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the media over its Monica obsession, which allowed him to stoke it quietly behind the scenes. What truly concerned him was that the press's eye had wandered since Clinton's Aug. 17 confession. Too many shows were going off-topic, too many talking heads exclaiming over Mark McGwire and showing boredom with Monica Lewinsky. It was fear of increasing scandal fatigue that prompted Gingrich's biggest blunder of the campaign: devising, testing and spending $10 million on TV spots reminding voters of what a snake the President was--a subject the electorate was trying to forget...
...YORK--An 85-year-old Honus Wagner baseball card went for $222,500 at auction yesterday, while the ball Mark McGwire hit for his 50th home run earned a whopping $46,000 for the New York Mets fan who caught it last August...
...Mark McGwire's record setting 62nd home run traveled 341 feet." Where would you probably find this statement? On The Crimson's sports pages? In The Guinness Book of Records? How about in a problem set for a Science-A Core class...
Most students would agree that associating physics with baseball is an easy way to make learning a bit more fun. But harmless as this may seem, these cultural references discriminate. McGwire and baseball are not a part of everybody's life. In fact, there are students who have never heard of McGwire or a home run. They are called "first-year international students...
International students are as familiar with Mark McGwire as American students are with Ronaldo. They know as much about home runs as American students do about corner kicks. Yet in these problem sets, baseball is chosen over soccer. Though this decision may help some students, it also puts others at a disadvantage...