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Like the portfolio of publications he controls, newspaper magnate Conrad Black transcends national categorization. Canadian-born and raised, he divides most of his time between Britain and the U.S. Earlier this year, motivated in part by bitterness over Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's refusal in 1999 to let him accept a British peerage, he renounced his Canadian citizenship. Two weeks ago, in a move that signaled the extent to which his focus has moved beyond Canada, Black announced that his holding company Hollinger would sell its 50% remaining stake in the country's National Post, which...
...live in a golden age of biographies about presidents and other public personalities. There's much to be said for these books. I recently read Jean Edward Smith's wonderful new "Grant", and even a pretty good biography of Grover Cleveland...
...most women's sports, including, until recently, tennis, the women are all huggy and super supportive and special to one another because they are struggling to gain legitimacy. But when a women's sport starts to make serious money, poison darts start looking for targets. "In the Billie Jean King era, they were missionaries," says WTA COO Josh Ripple. "Now the players are more difficult to deal with...
...forget to credit Billie Jean King for what she said off court as much as what she did on. And don't leave out Gloria and Germaine and Susan B. (Don't Call Me Babe) Anthony, the murderers row of women's rights. This is deeper than tennis, deeper than sport. It's about opportunity and encouragement; it's about cultural attitudes--or, as we say in the sports pages, 'tudes. We would not be in the Golden Age of Women's Sports if we hadn't had a sea change in sociopolitical 'tude...
...terror of this loss goes way beyond writers, of course. It's just that writers depend on the ability to make connections out of thin air, or no air. The novelist Jean Stafford lived with the dread that she would be crippled by a stroke (she was). H.L. Mencken was a stroke victim who, at the end of his life, was unable to read or write. One of those who sat at his bedside and read to him was Manchester...