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...only does the Zayed Centre promote intolerance and hatred toward America, Jews and Israel, but it also attempts to deny the atrocities of the Holocaust and allows individuals such as notorious Holocaust deniers David Irving and Roger Garaudy, a forum to promulgate their propaganda...
This year the three finest living baseball writers--Pulitzer prizewinning journalist David Halberstam, lifelong baseball scribe Roger Kahn and Roger Angell, a writer and editor at the New Yorker--have each, as if by a common agreement among the game's village elders, produced a new book, making the spring of 2003 quite possibly the all-time greatest single season of baseball writing ever. But it raises the question once again: Why do people who have way more important things to think about think about baseball...
...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 that lingers over the grass only shows up the ephemerality of those who play on it--baseball is not a sport of the gods, it's a sport of mortals, and ballplayers are even more human than other athletes. They tend to be of average size and weight, unlike the Star Wars...
...Roger Angell, by contrast, comes from the magazine writer's school of sportswriting: calm, meditative, not deadline driven or space cramped, free to follow the fast-and-slow, squeeze-and-relax rhythms of the game. His new book, Game Time (Harcourt; 398 pages), is a collection of pieces written for the New Yorker. Culled from 40 years and around a million words of baseball writing, they have a certain aged, triple-distilled quality: each one has the internal complexity of a novel. Angell likes to skirt the edges of the diamond: he keeps a lonely big-league scout company...
...black-tie, hotel or banquet-hall reception, a "been there, done that" attitude informs their decision. And couples who marry later in life, or for a second time, may be especially eager to have an experience different from the myriad other weddings they have attended or participated in. For Roger Wendt, 53, and Eva Conti, 41, musicians from Rivervale, N.J., their January wedding in the Bahamas was a conscious departure from his previous two marriages and her first. "Eva and I are adults who have both been married before and have lived together," Wendt explains. "We wanted to get married...