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...glimpse him in his latter years, he could have been any elderly man. He played golf, braved the shops sometimes, but mostly pottered about at home in suburban Adelaide. There was nothing to suggest this frail man was perhaps the finest sportsman who ever lived. His public life ended long ago. He would never comment on the latest trifle. He rarely graced social functions, even those that honored him. But few people felt deprived, much less slighted. Most knew that this was the right course for a great man: it ensured his spell would never be broken...
...great was Bradman? If Tiger Woods dominates golf for another 15 years, perhaps he will have a peer. For now, no other sport has seen his like. Dissenters have suggested he wasn't the most marvelous, that some other batsman was more elegant, another more powerful or charismatic. But always Bradman's record destroys their claim. Between 1928 and 1948 he played 52 Tests, in which he scored 6,996 runs at an average of 99.94. For cricket followers, it is that average, pondered even for the thousandth time, which bewilders. The next best: South African Graeme Pollock...
...Edgewood High School in Madison, Wis., this year, half the school's 480 students chose to take a ballroom-dance class to fulfill their physical-education requirement--over such other gym electives as golf, tennis, Ping-Pong and bowling...
Take in your hand a long Russian novel, The Brothers Karamazov, say. Tear out four of every five pages. Go to a golf course in a gated community in Southern Florida, and read those pages. Alone, in a basement and out of the cold, I had a similar experience. The exhibit of Candida Hšfer's Photographs at the Rose Museum is stunning, but it is small, fragmentary, and out of place...
...former private eye in Miami, tried to land an Indian gaming license in New Jersey and a contract in China to clean the air. In 1993 he became a mid-level "constituency outreach" coordinator at the D.N.C., sent around the country to attend picnics, wave in parades and play golf. In 1994 he married Senator Barbara Boxer's daughter Nicole in the first Rose Garden wedding since Tricia Nixon's. The marriage was short and troubled, and the two are still embroiled in a custody dispute over their son Zachary, now five, who frequently stays with the Clintons...