| After Thoughts |
| | Paving the way for Barack Obama
09/04/2008
Since history is not only the story of past events but an evaluation of their significance, it is difficult to know when you are present at the moment history is being made. Like the time in late August 1964 when I attended the Democratic National Convent
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| | The Olympic drumbeat
08/31/2008
I don’t know about you but I found those 2008 drummers beating their "fou" drums in perfect synchrony to open the 2008 Beijing Olympics a bit intimidating.
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| | Take me out to the ballpark
05/15/2008
I guess you know that you’re getting old when they start to tear down the baseball stadiums that were built in your own lifetime, presumably because they are considered too decrepit for a major league team and its fans.
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