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...games; he had come within one heart-stopping wallop of tying baseball's most dramatic and cherished record: the 60 home runs hit by George Herman Ruth in 1927 (seven years before Maris was born). Nothing in recent baseball history has aroused such sustained excitement?or provoked such profound and varied emotion ... ... A FEW SENTIMENTALISTS SAW EVERY MARIS HOMER AS A PERSONAL ATTACK ON RUTH. They argued that today's ball is livelier, today's fences shorter, today's pitching easier to hit. Groused Oldtimer Rogers Hornsby: 'Maris has no right to break Ruth's record.'" Read more at timearchive.com...
...Pulitzer Prize as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, wrote the 2004 best seller The Price of Loyalty, an inside look at the Bush Administration. In The One Percent Doctrine, Suskind finds that the notables and the invisibles have at least one thing in common: a "profound sense of urgency." TIME's exclusive excerpt...
...hear you saying. "The thing is profound. But is it a good movie?" You bet. Made with precision and vigor, the film never forgets to entertain, packing its 2-hr. 33-min. length with cool visions (like Krypton's crystal cathedral) and spectacular set pieces. Want some pure exhilaration? Check out Superman's midair wrangling of an Air Force jet, maneuvering it back to terra firma to make a gentle belly flop onto a baseball field during a game. And for an intimate intensity not often found in action films, stick around for the creepy encounter involving Superman, Luthor...
...certainly in a university, are collective and are the product of many, many people’s hard work. I do think the president of Harvard is in a position to exert leadership. At the same time, I think Harvard and particularly its Faculty of Arts and Sciences face profound issues of governance, particularly with regard to bringing the University together, if we’re to move forward as strongly as we possibly can on priorities like financial aid, like addressing major social concerns like global warming and education, priorities like taking advantage of the life sciences revolution...
...Harvard tomorrow. A Harvard grad, that is. A member of one of the most powerful alumni networks in the history of alumni networking. A person capable of detonating one of the most powerful bombs in the history of bomb detonating: the H bomb. An intellectual capable of making profound, circuitous statements with multiple clauses, numerous concessions, and several lists. Now, with the whole world at your fingertips, you must decide whether you should shoot it in a hoop, bowl it down a lane, hit it with a club, bounce it, squeeze it, or simply plant and nourish it. That...