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...season. Anaheim Angel Ramon Ortiz went from 26 to 29; Kansas City Royal Neifi Perez, from 26 to 28; Atlanta Brave Rafael Furcal, from 21 to 23; and Cleveland Indian BARTOLO COLON, from 26 to 27--all without celebrating a birthday. There is no warp in the time-space continuum; rather, new measures imposed since Sept. 11 require anyone applying for a work visa to show a birth certificate. In the past, many players have lied about their age to improve their chances of getting signed by the major leagues. A younger player has more potential to develop a longer...
...just want bravado for bravado’s sake, just as we don’t want to watch the Cleveland Cavaliers just because they play a sport. Listening to an imperfect, inarticulate statement of ego actually is offensive, not unlike a Detroit Lions game. The sport-to-soul continuum works both ways. We care about quality. Deep down, what we really want is eloquent egotism...
...paint one picture of women living under Islam today, it is clear that the religion has been used in most Muslim countries not to liberate but to entrench inequality. The Taliban, with its fanatical subjugation of the female sex, occupies an extreme, but it nevertheless belongs on a continuum that includes, not so far down the line, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan and the relatively moderate states of Egypt and Jordan. Where Muslims have afforded women the greatest degree of equality--in Turkey--they have done so by overthrowing Islamic precepts in favor of secular rule. As Riffat Hassan, professor...
Patrick Quinn, professor of English Literature at the University of Northampton, believes that Sept. 11 will turn out to be part of a continuum stretching back to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914. "If you think of World War I, World War II, Vietnam and now this, historically they are part of the same problem. The world we live in is chaos. All the art since 1914, starting with futurism and then working its way through modernism and post-modernism, is all a matter of wanting to have some control over the world we live...
...paint one picture of women living under Islam today, it is clear that the religion has been used in most Muslim countries not to liberate but to entrench inequality. The Taliban, with its fanatical subjugation of the female sex, occupies an extreme, but it nevertheless belongs on a continuum that includes, not so far down the line, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan and the relatively moderate states of Egypt and Jordan. Where Muslims have afforded women the greatest degree of equality--in Turkey--they have done so by overthrowing Islamic precepts in favor of secular rule. As Riffat Hassan, professor...