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Let's knock down the basketball straw man first. If someone plays defense like Bill Russell, passes like Isiah Thomas, scores like Julius Erving and rises to the occasion like Larry Bird, it's hard to argue against him. The clincher comes in the context of his team. When Jordan...
You know the drill: uggy fauna must be confronted, nasty flora must be cut through. And then there's the not entirely plausible pirate attack to be beaten off. All this, naturally, provides the occasion first for bickering, then for dawning mutual respect, finally for bonding. All in all, one...
Your treatment of delays in developing new drugs let the Food and Drug Administration off the hook. A poll of cancer specialists commissioned by the Competitive Enterprise Institute bears this out: 65% believe the FDA is too slow in approving drugs, and more than 70% state that FDA delays have...
Sinatra--this is both his gift and, on occasion, his downfall--is always Sinatra. Beyond his technical prowess as a jazz-influenced pop singer, building on the innovations of Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday, there is the sheer force of conviction, feeling, the weight of personal history in...
All too often, there is a tendency to view critically one generation in light of its immediate predecessor. Baby-boomers who grew up during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam war have somewhat derisively labeled our generation "Generation X"--which, over the years, has come...