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It's doubly sad whenever time claims a ballplayer, because the game is predicated on the suspension of ordinary temporality. "Uniquely among team sports, baseball proceeds outside of time," Roger Kahn observes in his new book October Men (Harcourt; 382 pages). "There is no clock." But the air of eternity...
“I think the umpire missed a call there,” Walsh said. “Morgalis thought he’d beaten him. I kept saying that with all of these bad hops and bounces we got that the baseball gods would have to turn it...
Yet as any golfer knows and as Klein was soon to be reminded, that which the golf Gods giveth they can also taketh away. Knocking his drive behind a tree on the 10th, leaving a bunker shot on the 11th still in the bunker, airmailing the green on the 12th...
The death penalty is not carried out in some perfect world, where gods and angels preside over just executions for the good of society. Here on earth, we don’t elect gods; we elect human beings. Our institutions of government and law are the impure creations of imperfect...
About Gulf War II and its consequences (whatever they may be), though, the "great man" theory is correct, and the great man is President George W. Bush. Great in this context does not necessarily mean good or wise. It does usually suggest a certain largeness of character or presence on...