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Unquestionably, McGwire's feats of 1998 were granted a deeper dimension by the presence of his confederate, the ecstatic Sammy Sosa. Here was a joyous, ebullient counterpoint to McGwire's more sedate self. From the moment in midspring that Sosa launched a sudden torrent of home runs like none ever seen in baseball history--he hit 20 in June alone--the two men were flawlessly scripted antagonists cast in the same play. This was rapture vs. gravity, spontaneity vs. self-restraint, Latin brio vs. California cool. Their collision seemed inevitable; yet what ensued was less a crash than...
...tormented American poet Sylvia Plath; after an 18-month fight with cancer; in London. Blamed by many for Plath's 1963 suicide, Hughes earlier this year published Birthday Letters, a collection of intense poems that described his relationship with Plath. It helped clear the air and won him a torrent of praise. Acclaimed for his unsentimental poetry filled with violent images of nature, Hughes also wrote a number of poems and stories for children...
...every day when I was a newspaper reporter. Outlook went even further by adding a simple bozo filter, which allows me to click on any message, select "Junk Mail" from a drop-down menu, and banish to the slag heap for eternity anything that arrives from that sender. The torrent of garbage hasn't diminished; I just don't see it anymore...
...things most would rather not see, to places they would rather not go. The most shocking aspect of the report was the sheer quantity and raw quality of sexual detail. Starr's grand jurors received this evidence drop by drop, day by day; last week it came in a torrent over the wires in an instant, flooding the circuits of conscience and calculation and taste. Starr takes readers through the entire history of Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky, from their first flirtations during the government shutdown in the fall of 1995, when the interns had the run of the West...
...Asian journalist getting into the same kind of trouble and being able to call on that kind of support without being accused of pleading for special treatment because of race. If Barnicle were black and, say, Jesse Jackson had spoken up for him, it would have unleashed a torrent of complaints that affirmative action has led to the hiring of less-qualified minorities and a diminution in journalistic standards. That's what Howell Raines, editor of the New York Times' editorial page, was getting at when he wrote that "the historical bottom line of this event will be that...