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...have my father to thank for this. Dad used to take me to see the Millrose Games--generally considered one of the world's premiere indoor track meets--at Madison Square Garden. We'd show up after taking the 2 train into Manhattan--always late, never caring. We'd watch the sprinters and distance runners take their marks, and recognize a few names from...
...lack technical knowledge with which to describe Bubka's forays into the Garden air. What I can say is that each and every jump was a perfect example of muscular coordination, and that each revealed unrivaled intensity and focus. I can also say that Bubka's jumps forever changed the way I looked at athletics...
Another figure of Garden lore, the more widely-known Willis Reed, gave the country one of the greatest sports moments in its history when he limped onto the Garden court in Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals. Having torn a muscle in his right leg in Game 5, the captain and MVP defied expectations and human physiology to inspire his teammates to an incredible victory...
...daughter's when she died of leukemia in 1996. That's why, for the two decades after he fled the U.S., Rich has been trying to buy his way back to respectability by stroking the interests of the Israelis, Swiss, Spaniards and Americans, cultivating relationships like roses in his garden. From his outpost in the Swiss town of Zug, he wired contributions around the world--to hospitals, opera houses and disaster-relief organizations--and slowly, the fugitive was camouflaged by all the pretty flowers. He donated an estimated $200 million to institutions in Israel and the Jewish diaspora...
...Booker Prize last year and came out in a U.S. paperback edition last month. The novel follows the voyage of the Sincerity, a smuggling vessel that takes on a party of highbrow landlubbers bound for the island of Tasmania. One of them, the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson, believes that the Garden of Eden is located on the island and seeks to prove this as part of a great effort to debunk modern scientific theories of geology and evolution. Also on board is Dr. Thomas Potter, another amateur philosopher with a strange pet theory. Potter is a systematic racist, out to classify...