Olympics | Olympics
Mar.09.2012
Women’s abilities are always being called into question. Take Rick Santorum's poke at women being too emotion for duty at the front lines of combat situations. A select corps of women is fighting back. Read the story of one American and two Afghani teenagers who are trying to make history and...
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Feb.20.2012
Now exchanging mails, sending text messages, and disbursing information on social networking sites will assure you posterity. At least for one year.
Unlike most people who talk of censorship and freedom, I am quite excited about the UK government move for a new “spy plan” simply because it...
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Aug.05.2011
It seems every culture where the lion roamed, has its own legends of heroic feats performed against one of mankind's favorite beasts. One such story is the legend of the lion that continued to torment Greece's Nemean Valley. Hercules (whom Scribner-Bantam dictionary describes as "the most...
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May.29.2011
Memorial Day weekend is the official start of the summer vacation season in America. This weekend, when millions of Americans take to the road, seems like a particularly appropriate time to recognize Grete Waitz, the Norwegian-born woman who died of cancer on April 11 at the age of 57 of cancer...
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Mar.25.2010
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about success. Not the standard question, "how can I be more successful?” (which is usually just a tasteful coverup for “how can I make more money?”)
My question is completely different: Have I already succeeded, and just failed to notice?
From 2000-2004, one...
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Feb.27.2010
Though we have managed to record many hours of the Olympics, we have also watched many hours live. Doing so has involved hours of watching the following commercials.
1. The McDonald's commercial where the psycho parents fight over who gets to bring the poisonous happy meal to their spoiled, nanny...
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Feb.24.2010
Thanks to all of you who entered to win a copy of William Wallace's new book, Michelangelo: the Artist, the Man, and His Times. I always love a good giveaway, and I love having fun prizes, too.
Congratulations to Carolyn!
She's the winner of this giveaway. She has a really nice collection...
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Feb.20.2010
Many famous scholars trace the sport of curling back to the Dutch artist Pieter Breugel’s 1565 painting of people playing with stones on an icy pond. The Hunters in the Snow is just what it suggests: hunters and their dogs returning to their snow-covered village. In the distance, specks of bundled-...
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Feb.17.2010
Appear nonchalant at daycare in a tight-fitting aerodynamic orange helmet.
If you think the giant slalom is tricky, try the packed isles at Trader Joe’s with everyone else in Baltimore County in search of creamy, low-salt soynut butter.
Triple axel? More like triple-wash the whites. Who’s...
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Feb.17.2010
When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, the Olympics were all about beating the Soviet Union. China was a dark force whom "we" didn't like very much, but the Soviet Union? Yeesh. Darth Vader, Sauron and Lex Luther all rolled up into one.
Have times changed.
My family and I...
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