Yet she noted also that how to catch the passage of timeina still image is an old problem, one that Chardin was exploring over 200 years ago when he painted a boy making a house of cards.
Despite having a Democratic-controlled Congress at the time, the White House was unable to win passagein 2010 for the DREAM Act, which would have granted legal status to young people brought to the country illegally by their family.
The question now is whether it's spiraled too much, and whether the passage of time will bring a different perspective, placing the value of Bonds and McGwire's accomplishments somewhere in between the levels of nine years ago and today.