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...team racing. The fact that the college sailing circuit is more focused on the two-person game has not altered Johnson’s overall focus. “There’s still a hint of luck involved, and it’s still impossible to have a perfect race,” he said. “It’s always a game of who makes the fewest mistakes and who stays the most consistent.” In a sport that punishes chance mistakes and rewards consistency, Johnson has done little of the former...
...Learning from New Orleans I am a 62-year-old white woman responding to the pitch-perfect words of my black brother Wynton Marsalis. In his Essay "Saving America's Soul Kitchen" [Sept. 19], he wrote, "We always back away from fixing our nation's racial problems. Not fixing the city's levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more." America, listen to those words or reap the consequences. If the cries of human suffering don't move us, perhaps...
...implications,' he says. 'On a much larger scale this happens all the time. Eventually, the Israelis are going to have to learn to live with the Arabs. We have one world, and Gilligan's Island was my way of saying that.' ... In the world of Sherwood Schwartz, it makes perfect sense...
...including saxophonist Joe Lovano and guitarist John Scofield, to steer the listener through 10 intricate, moody melodies. The tempo rarely rises above a moderate shuffle, giving Lovano and Scofield space for lush, lilting solos, while Johnson, pianist Eliane Elias and drummer Joey Baron conjure a swirling, hypnotic soundscape--the perfect backdrop for a rainy autumn afternoon. --By Romesh Ratnesar
...Scotland, are about as remote as it gets from London or the Caribbean. But for Laurent Viguie, 44, a financier in the City, and Karol Rzepkowski, 41, who was running a scuba and windsurfing business on Grenada, the storm-swept Shetlands with their clean, cold water were the perfect place to set up an environmentally friendly aquaculture business to produce...