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Seinfeld has a second child on the way. He got married for the first time at 45 and found that the institution suits him. Early in Comedian, he tries to cheer up a disheartened young stand-up by telling him his favorite show-business story. The plane carrying Glenn Miller's band is forced to land in a snowstorm. Two of the musicians are trudging through a snowy field and see a snug little cabin in front of them. They peer through the window and see a husband and wife laughing with their two apple-cheeked children in front...
...worry about me," Khan later wrote, trying to cheer up his family. "I'm happy. I've even given up smoking." According to the letter, like all Guantanamo inmates he lives in a 6.8-by-8 feet cell with a copy of the Koran for company. For 30 minutes every week, he is allowed out of this cage to exercise with his feet shackled. He and all other so-called "enemy combatants" were recently moved from Camp X-Ray to the larger Camp Delta several miles away, where the army is building an extra 204 cells for future captives...
...worry about me," Khan later wrote, trying to cheer up his family. "I'm happy. I've even given up smoking." Like all Guant?namo inmates, he lives in a 2-m by 2.5-m cell with a copy of the Koran for company. For 30 minutes every week, he is allowed out of this cage to exercise with his feet shackled. He and all the other so-called "enemy combatants" were recently moved from Camp X-Ray to the larger Camp Delta several kilometers away, where the Army is busy building an extra 204 cells for future captives...
...here we get to the point. This isn’t a plea for folks who never watch SportsCenter to get out to the games and cheer for the football team, a refrain that has been repeated on these pages ad nauseum (this columnist is among the guilty). Instead, the question is posed to those people who ordinarily would be attracted to college sports, those who would go to games if they went to their state schools or Stanford or Duke: Do you know what you’re missing...
...taking off to California to cheer on the Anaheim Angels as they face the San Francisco Giants in the World Series...