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Despite the hero worship reflected in such purchases, infamy was also a big draw. Last year actor Charlie Sheen paid $93,500 for the ball that dribbled through the legs of Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner in a misplay that ultimately cost Boston the 1986 World Series. At last month's sale, Leland's auctioned off Buckner's Series runner-up ring accompanied by a note: "Hope you enjoy my ring. The nightmare of 1986 is over! I'm off the hook. Your pal, Bill Buckner." Ring and note brought an astonishing $33,000. Even Pete Rose's good...
These psychic genes shaped the face of American life. The interplay of civic-mindedness and conscience has given us whatever we have enjoyed of liberty, while success and industry have fattened our GNP. On the downside, the worship of usefulness has impoverished American art; one takes the bad with the good. Italians invented the Renaissance -- and live in chaos. We produced the Ashcan school -- and Abraham Lincoln...
...Diana Eck. Students have located, among other things, seven Buddhist temples in Salt Lake City, two Sikh gurdwaras in Phoenix, Arizona, a Taoist temple in Denver, a Jain center in Blairstown, New Jersey, and five Oklahoma City mosques. The project estimates that nationwide there are 1,139 houses of worship for Muslims, 1,515 for Buddhists and 412 for Hindus...
...turquoise cylinder encloses the worship and gathering area, which seats about 100 people...
Like most moral strictures that are actually obeyed (the classic example: Do not worship a golden calf), this one never impinged on my life-style. It's not as if I toil for a New York City tabloid and have to beg some hard-boiled city editor, "Please, I'll do anything -- Madonna, Heidi Fleiss, even Shannen Doherty. Anything but the Trump beat...