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...Wideman, a two-time PEN/Faulkner Award winner, is too old for playground basketball, the game he loves. He is the perfect age, however, to drift back and examine his rise from ghetto prodigy to Ivy League hoops star to literary Brahmin. At all phases playground ball is there, teaching creativity, the difference between "solo triumph" and group participation, and other life lessons. There are too many basketball-is-like-jazz musings, but at its best moments, Hoop Roots brings a touch of Proust to the blacktop...
...Before I drift off to sleep, my mind reflects. Afghanistan. A mystical place. Unique people. Resilient. Powerful. Today's phone calls reminded me that, despite the current terror and crisis, that Afghanistan really doesn't need the rest of the world as much as the rest of the world needs Afghanistan...
Thus, at a time when I should be consumed with acquiring the wit of Maureen Dowd, the political-savvy of Mary Matlin and the resiliency of Hillary, I instead find myself preoccupied with answering the pop-culture queries of Carrie Bradshaw. When my thoughts drift to interviews inevitably I am left with but one damning interrogatory gnawing at my brain: Despite strides in gender equality is it really true that what’s below a woman’s waist is still more important that what’s coming out of her mouth...
...truly effective airport security, says Gritta, is eliminating the human factor altogether. No matter how well trained or well-paid you are, if you?re sitting at a scanning station for more than an hour at a time, you?re probably going to drift off occasionally. "But if there?s a way to automate the whole process, with fingerprint recognition techniques or highly sophisticated scanners," says Gritta, "we?d be a lot better...
...however, have carved out a new mold for themselves as Instant Gratification Machines of sorts, anticipating and catering to the public’s wants. And, until very recently, these two areas of the industry, the small-scale specialized press and the large-scale mainstream press, seemed destined to drift further apart...