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...Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, was written about a London soccer team but easily translated into a film about the Boston Red Sox. Particularly in the U.S., it seems possible to be a fan of a team that's based far from where you have ever lived, but I suspect the origins of my obsession are more common. I didn't have much choice in the matter. Both my parents were born in tiny row houses a stone's throw from Liverpool's stadium. My father took me to my first game as a small child, and from the moment...
...week earlier, 58 clerics in Lahore had signed a fatwa condemning suicide bombings against Muslims or in places of worship. But many conservative clerics declined to endorse the decree, and hard-line orthodox Sunni militants, whom authorities suspect are behind Friday's bombing, do not consider Pakistan's many Shi'ites, Sufis and moderate Sunnis "real" Muslims at all. "There is no place in Islam for such acts," insists Mufti Munibur Rehman, who signed the fatwa. Sadly, there seems to be a place for them in Pakistan...
...many others, I suspect--the lonely, introverted process of statistically quantifying my strength and stamina levels and comparing them to some abstract norm started a few years later, in fifth grade, when we were called to the playground to compete for the President's physical fitness certificate. The hidden purpose of this cold war--era program was, I presume, to transform the public schools into a vast network of junior boot camps. The criteria for obtaining the certificate were ominously unvarying and exact. If a child couldn't do a certain number of chin-ups or complete...
...Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch - written about a London soccer team and happily translated into a film about the Boston Red Sox. Particularly in the U.S. it seems possible to be a fan of a team that's based miles from where you have ever lived, but I suspect my fandom's origins are more common. I didn't have much choice in the matter. Both my parents were born in tiny row-houses a stone's throw from Liverpool's stadium. My father took me to my first game as a small child, and from the first moment...
...means is this the project of a single decade, or, I suspect, a single generation,” said University President Lawrence H. Summers, speaking in a conference call with reporters today...