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...hope that in the future you will re-think your editorial policy regarding rugby and will publish only those articles which are truly newsworthy. In this way, you will help shatter, rather than reinforce, the pervading unjust stereotypes. Mark Sagarin...
...When you think of homers, you think of 1961, when New York Yankee Roger Maris hit 61 roundtrippers to break Babe Ruth's single-season record. Teammate Mickey Mantle hit 54. The M & M boys helped the Yankees shatter the team record for home runs in a season (240). While the Yanks were tearing up the American League, who led the National League in homers during the 1961 season...
...three-time All-Ivy fencer, Papailias ended the regular season with an unbelievable 52-5 record, and is the first Harvard woman to shatter the single-season 50-win plateau...
...McCulloughs' case, this is almost literally true. Walls and walls of their house are nothing but glass, and readers who expect something to shatter will not be disappointed. But the source and degree of the destruction are entirely unanticipated. Glynnis finds a canceled check for $1,000 that Ian had made out to Sigrid Hunt, a willowy young woman whom Glynnis had once taken up socially and then dropped. Ian's explanation happens to be factual: Sigrid had phoned him in distress and in need of an abortion. Assuming she was Glynnis' | friend, Ian had offered what comfort he could...
Beene can sculpt a dress with sensual simplicity or fill out a coat so that it seems to loft from the body. His rule breaking -- like putting diamonds on a plastic bracelet -- is focused, almost casual, and helps shatter stereotypes. In the fashion world, Beene has resisted and neatly refuted the caricature of Americans as the slightly slaphappy innovators of sportswear and merchandising trends. A long black wool coat from 1983, with flowing gold satin insets along its back and sleeves, constructed of curved seams, is a masterly combination of grand luxe and offhand invention, a subtle experiment in enlarging...