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...fact that the U.S. was not more supportive of its smaller, slightly younger neighbor had a great deal to do with Louverture's roots, which were African and which were now planted in America's backyard. For Jefferson, who had drafted the declaration that defined his nation's insurgency and who had witnessed and praised the French Revolution, knew exactly what revolutions meant. Their essence was not in their instantaneous bursts of glory but in their ripple effect across borders and time, their ability to put the impossible within reach and make the downtrodden seem mighty. And he feared that...
...confess that I’ve let that slip a bit while in Cambridge, where there is too much schoolwork and too few trails and rolling hills to entice me to go on daily 90-minute runs like I used to. Now the hills are once more in my backyard, so it’s time to lace up the shoes again...
...Even if things get a bit too heavy/We'll all float on") while the rest of the band makes bouncy, happy noises in the background. It's how Nick Drake's Pink Moon might have turned out if ol' Nick had been just a little happier. Perfect for a backyard sing-along as summer's last party winds down...
...junior numbers have been stable for the past five years, says Cricket Australia. But like most sports, cricket loses a disproportionate number of players in their early teens. Many of these could be retained, Chappell argues, if cricket went easier on them. It needs to realize that without a backyard initiation, many kids are finding the real thing too hard. They need to be held back from competition so they can devote at least "their first 100 hours of (cricketing) activity to triggering intuitive learning." Coaches are trying to compensate with intensive teaching, but bombarding tyros with instruction is counterproductive...
...cricket establishment there's respect for Chappell but a feeling he's overstating the issues. His thesis isn't bulletproof. Backyard cricket is less common than it was but it's hardly disappeared. As for coaches bewildering kids with instruction, junior coaching ranks are still filled mostly by players' dads, whose main concern each Saturday is that everyone have a turn. Some boys are quitting cricket because they're not very good at it, but Australian boys have been doing that for more than 150 years. And it has to be expected that some gifted players will fall away later...