The Week

■ Can Sammy Sosa catch Roger Maris before Bill Clinton catches Richard Nixon?

■ In the first known instance of humanity and humor on the part of the Internal Revenue Service, Commissioner Charles O. Rossotti said, “Sometimes pieces of the tax code can be as hard to understand as the infield-fly rule,” and exempted home-run balls returned to the slugger from the federal gift tax, just hours before Mark McGwire swatted #62.

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■ Can Sammy Sosa catch Roger Maris before Bill Clinton catches Richard Nixon?

■ In the first known instance of humanity and humor on the part of the Internal Revenue Service, Commissioner Charles O. Rossotti said, “Sometimes pieces of the tax code can be as hard to understand as the infield-fly rule,” and exempted home-run balls returned to the slugger from the federal gift tax, just hours before Mark McGwire swatted #62.