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Yankee Stadium traditions bear vague similarities to those at Fenway, but Yankee fans tend to be more obscene, lacking even the shreds of subtlety that would make their statements funny. Fenway, for example, has its middle-of-the-eighth tradition of playing Neil Diamond??s “Sweet Caroline,” to which all 35,000 Sox faithful sing along...
...either going to finish Jared Diamond??s book Guns, Germs, and Steel…or re-read Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea. I’m going on a canoe trip with my dad, so I’ll bring the lighter...
Walsh also expressed his confidence in Farkes’ near legendary discipline and work ethic—last year Walsh said Farkes was the only player he can never beat to the diamond??as something that will aide in his recovery...
...Diamond, the organization of a company or industry, just like the institutions of a society, is the most significant reason for its success or lack thereof. He even says that Bill Gates supports this theory—that it was actually Gates who first applied the logic of Diamond??s theory to the contemporary business world...
This particular application is one of the motivations behind Diamond??s new afterword to the book. In the new section, Diamond uses his theory to explore the underlying social processes by which weapons spread, ultimately reinforcing his original argument about why Europe emerged as the dominant world player...