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...drinking Yankees pitcher DAVID (BOOMER) WELLS is causing a ruckus with a tell-all memoir due out this week, Perfect I'm Not! In 1998 Wells threw a perfect game--hence the title--but in Perfect I'm Not! he says he did it "half drunk, with bloodshot eyes, monster breath and a raging, skull-rattling hangover" after a night spent partying with the cast of Saturday Night Live. He also claims that "between 25% and 40%" of Major League players use steroids. Wells, who says he may soften up some passages before the book hits stores...
...Critically, Japan's new conscript armies were made accountable only to the Emperor, who was cast in the role of a living deity who would reign but not rule. Starting in the 1930s, Buruma writes, this "militarist monster" lurched from Manchuria to Pearl Harbor as factions of courtiers, generals and bureaucrats jostled for power, their decisions often driven by fanatical subordinates in the field...
DIED. VERA HRUBA RALSTON, 79, Czech-born Olympic skater and Ice Capades sweetheart who went on to a less stellar career in B movies during the 1940s and '50s (The Lady and the Monster; I, Jane Doe); of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. She added the name Ralston (from a breakfast cereal) because people stumbled over Hruba...
...play left Springfield serving for the match, but a monster kill by sophomore outside hitter Will Reppun tied the game at 30. The Crimson fought off three more match points—on kills from Reppun, Cardet and Ramos—before finally falling...
...genital origami.” The two performers’ genitalia are projected via video onto a giant three-storey screen as they perform dozens of “installations” or “dick-tricks.” Highlights include the “Loch Ness Monster,” the “turtle,” and for the benefit of Yalies everywhere, the “bulldog.” Unique portrayals of Boston landmarks are in the works for their shows here...