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RETIRING. MARK MCGWIRE, 38, St. Louis Cardinals slugger who was first to hit 70 homers in a season, beating Roger Maris' 1961 record of 61. His record stood until this year, when Barry Bonds hit 73. An injured, frustrated McGwire told reporters he was no longer able to perform "at a level equal to what [the Cardinals] would be paying...
...RETIRED. MARK MCGWIRE, 38, the American baseball slugger who enthralled fans in 1998 as he chased and then broke Roger Maris' single-season home-run record only to see Barry Bonds eclipse the mark this year; in St. Louis. McGwire, a 12-time All-Star first baseman who hit a lifetime 583 home runs, exits a remarkable 15-year career after battling tendinitis in his right knee. AWARDED. JONATHAN FRANZEN, 42, the prestigious National Book Award for his best-selling novel The Corrections, about the dysfunctional Lambert family in middle America; in New York City. Franzen came into the spotlight...
Other members of the panel included Religion lecturer Brian Palmer, Meyer Professor of Middle East History Roger Owen and Timothy P. McCarthy, a lecturer in history and literature. Each spoke for about 15 minutes...
...Roger Rosenblatt's commentary on Americans' unspecific fears was right on target [ESSAY, Oct. 22]. Thanks to the FBI's vague warning about imminent attacks, our nation has truly been compromised. We're told by our president to get on with our lives so that the terrorists' scare tactics do not overwhelm and paralyze us, but then we're smothered by a pillow of fear from the very government organization that's supposed to filter out unspecific threats. The media circus surrounding the FBI's pronouncements has placed us squarely in the bull's-eye of our own target...
While Curt Schilling and Roger Clemens faced off, the New York Times reported that a secret CIA office was among the buildings destroyed on Sept. 11. The office had held valuable documents on some of the most important counter-terrorism cases of the past several years...