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...self-discovery. The decision did not come easily, and just when I thought I could safely discard one team, I suddenly remembered a fond memory from my experience. But in the end, I had to make up my mind. Leo Durocher once said, “Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.” I was a diligent attendee—partook of the stadium chow, greeted my fellow parishioners, and thanked the baseball gods for good weather—and through it all I gained a deeper understanding of the game, myself...
...American has been a work-in-progress for 200-plus years. Immigrants arriving here generally join family and/or move into ethnically congenial neighborhoods. They typically work in a commercial culture where, if need be, they can get by only dealing with their fellow countrymen. Television, radio, music, church services can all be consumed in their native language. Indeed virtually all one’s needs—from restaurants, supermarkets, and karaoke bars, to medical, legal, insurance and real estate services—are readily available in one’s mother tongue. Major cities such as New York...
...Joel Stein wheedled an invitation to participate in an event at a mosque, Jewish temple or Hindu shrine and produced a column similar to the one he wrote about Saddleback Church, he would probably lose his job [July 27]. So why is it O.K. to generalize one small event at one church on one night into an indictment of Christians, especially Evangelicals? In America, we have freedom not only of religion but also of taste and style and, yes, even humor. But what can possibly make Stein's humor superior to anybody else's? There have always been scoffers...
...Tercentenary Theater’s elms fell last Saturday night and caused minor damage to Sever Hall. The tree, which once stood between Sever Hall and Memorial Church, damaged Sever bricks, broke a window, and tore screens on its way down. Additionally, it knocked over a blue light police phone pole...
...Church, who is 41 and has lived in Baton Rouge for nearly three years, has a theory. "I see this anecdotally amongst, like, my wife's friends," he says. "They're like, 'Ah, I'm running an hour a day, and I'm not losing any weight.'" He asks them, "What are you doing after you run?" It turns out one group of friends was stopping at Starbucks for muffins afterward. Says Church: "I don't think most people would appreciate that, wow, you only burned 200 or 300 calories, which you're going to neutralize with just half that...