Bud Selig, concerned that baseball is boring Generation Xbox, keeps trying to nudge the players back in the batter's box. It's a near-impossible task.
They played very expeditiously yesterday at Nationals Park. Bud Selig - the Master of "Go Faster!" - would have been proud. Had the Nats' 4-3 loss to the Brewers not been extended to extra innings, the game would have been completed in a succinct 2 hours, 34 minutes.
Even if you are not a member of the Baker Street Irregulars, that popular society of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts, you will find this collection of previously unpublished letters from Holmes' creator fascinating reading. For while much is known about Holmes — "the world's most famous man who never was" — less has been revealed about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose life rivaled that of any fiction. As a physician, sportsman, war correspondent, military historian, crusader for social justice and spokesman for spiritualism, his days were full of drama.
History repeats itself, but rarely exactly. Examples of both cowardice and courage have lessons to teach, and so do comparisons with the past.
U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican, is quickly becoming one of my favorite people. Hunter has introduced legislation that would reduce the sky-high nonresident hunting license fees charged by Western states, where so much of our federal lands are found.
Release of International Monetary Fund economic growth projections for 2007 set off a rash of misleading headlines. Many claimed that because China will lead the world with a national gross domestic product growth of 11.2 percent, it is the "engine of the global economy." This implies what is happening in China benefits the rest of the world, when in fact it is really only empowering China. Its impact on other countries is problematic.
Release of International Monetary Fund economic growth projections for 2007 set off a rash of misleading headlines. Many claimed that because China will lead the world with a national gross domestic product growth of 11.2 percent, it is the "engine of the global economy." This implies what is happening in China benefits the rest of the world, when in fact it is really only empowering China. Its impact on other countries is problematic.
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE, N.Y. -- When mining magnate Harold Hoch-schild bought the Blue Mountain House resort in the middle of the last century, his vision was to create a place that would forever preserve the heritage of the Adirondacks.
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE, N.Y. -- When mining magnate Harold Hoch-schild bought the Blue Mountain House resort in the middle of the last century, his vision was to create a place that would forever preserve the heritage of the Adirondacks.
