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Whether you are a die-hard baseball fan, a disgruntled Red Sox supporter or anybody else for that matter, the ongoing World Series between the New York Mets and the New York Yankees is one that you cannot ignore. This week will represent much more than baseball, so everyone should be tuning in--not only to the television, but to the pulse of New York. For the sake of knowledge, history, sociology and baseball, this is the series to watch...
What is the difference, how can the line be crossed, and how will we know if we have done it? For we cannot easily separate our search for beauty, the thorough study of beauty's traits and trademarks, from our own soul-crafting. It is the beautiful person whom others imitate and we all, in our own ways, crave the kind of mastery that spawns imitation...
What this means is that beauty and genius--and all the other unmistakable crossings into mastery--are lost without someone who knows what a good violinist can reasonably do, who can appreciate Galois' letter, who will recognize fluency. Beauty cannot exist in the mirror. The observer may live somewhere else, sometime else, speak a different language, come slowly into knowledge. But the great distance of many other witnesses is of little consolation as we scan the room to see if we're being observed...
...cannot defend ourselves; we don't have an army, navy or an air force. Our agreements with Israel prevent us from that. Why would they do such a thing? Is it not enough to have tanks, soldiers? We already have more than 100 dead Palestinians and about 3,000 wounded. Palestinians are very angry at this development...
...people who can't help being afraid. My husband Yoni is afraid. He sees Arab politicians and Muslim clergy inciting Muslims everywhere against Jews, saying that Jews deserve violence and accepting that killing Jews is a heroic mission. Today he says he sees the jihad spreading and that he cannot look into the eyes of an Arab without wondering if he could act like the mob in Ramallah that lynched the soldiers...