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...Greg Vaughn and Ken Griffey Jr., half of the 50-plus bombers that year, were dwarfed in size, production and attention by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Both McGwire, with 70 home runs, and Sosa, with 66, blew away the record 61 home runs of Roger Maris that had stood as the standard for 37 years. America was captivated by the two huge men and the great home-run race. Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, praised McGwire and Sosa as the "home-run kings for working families in America." McGwire, with forearms the size of a grown...
...That same winter, with the party raging at full throttle, one man rose up and basically announced the whole damn thing was a fraud. Rick Helling, a 27-year-old righthanded pitcher and the players' representative for the Texas Rangers, stood up at the winter meeting of the Executive Board of the Major League Baseball Players Association and made an announcement. He told his fellow union leaders that steroid use by ballplayers had grown rampant and was corrupting the game...
...come here and change the world,” Brother Blue says. Blue took his message of love and kindness into prisons during the 50s as part of his doctoral work with the Union Institute and continued to spread the word to all who would listen while he stood barefoot on sidewalks in the Square. Brother Blue will tell you the story of how the universe was created in the Blue Period, a time before the possibility of time, and is willing to give a rendition of King Lear in under five minutes. In fact Brother Blue sees the ability...
...looked on as a crowd of scantily clad women enthusiastically exited a tiny bathroom; one of them approached a man behind the counter, who pulled out a letter from inside his shirt and gave it to the smiling female. Suspecting that “Pizza” actually stood for something else, Tim and I hastily reconsidered ordering “hero” sandwiches.After surviving the night in Ithaca, we piled back in the car and plotted a course for Columbia University. New York City on Valentine’s Day proved to be slightly more appealing than...
Once an "all-weather friend," China stood with Pakistan during its old confrontations with India. Ties between the two countries date back to 1950 after Pakistan joined a small handful of nations in recognizing the communist People's Republic of China. In 1962, war broke out between China and India over the disputed Himalayan border region, further aligning China and Pakistan in the name of a common enmity toward India. Since then, Beijing has often offered its support to Islamabad in the way of economic assistance, but also with no-strings-attached military aid and support to Pakistan's nuclear...