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...sad and poignant commentary on our times that few of the best photographs were of anything remotely joyful. To revive our spirits, could you publish a compilation of "Cheerful Photographs of the Year"? Shankar Kumar Madras, India...
...book is like the player he was. He was known as Charlie Hustle, and he hustles through brief moments of remorse and apology. In what may be the most remarkable statement in the book, he writes, "I'm sure that I'm supposed to act all sorry or sad or guilty now that I've accepted that I've done something wrong. But you see, I'm just not built that way... Let's move on.'' It's as if the ordinary rules of public apology do not apply because he is different...
...perhaps, but there are times when a public-opinion poll does not produce a principled result. Rose alone has kept himself out of the Hall of Fame. That honor should go to honorable players, umpires, executives and managers. If it is not in Pete Rose to be sorry or sad or to feel guilty, then it should not be in Commissioner Selig to feel merciful. For most of us, the premise of forgiveness is contrition. So, as Rose put it himself, "Let's move...
...certain uncanny, ineffable child sense, like that laughing baby sun in Teletubbies. "There's always one or two people--they're in the minority--who don't like the baby sun," Wood sighs. "And they'll say to me, I hate that baby! And you say, Oh dear, how sad that is. But that's how it is: either you're into this and you accept that there's an alternative world of childhood...
...would have loved to have let her do that,” Delaney-Smith said. “I’m sad I did not know that...