Chicago, if you knew then what you know now . . .
If it's a Sunday in June, that can mean only one thing: the NBA Finals. With that in mind, I went out to the United Center on a recent afternoon,...
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The world spins ’round, like a salad
Sometimes, just when your day needs brightening, out comes the sun. And the sun doesn't even need to be up in the sky. It can be indoors, in the form...
How to tell if a city is really big league
Welcome to the big leagues. It is, you know. Jacksonville, that is. It's big league. They've got a National Football League team here, so it counts. That's the measuring stick...
The Swingin’ Medallion view of U.S. history
Waiting to board a plane at Reagan National Airport here the other morning, I was intrigued to see that the Smithsonian Institution has a store right in one of the...
OK, pro golfers — let’s make this game interesting
The golf world is all atwitter over last week's United States Supreme Court ruling that allows Casey Martin to use a golf cart while playing in tournaments. Martin, who suffers...
Summer days, summer nights, pebbles in a jar
`Keep an eye on summer. . . ." That bit of lyric, from the middle of an old song I have otherwise long forgotten, reinsinuates itself into the atmosphere this...
`Now that my ladder’s gone, I must lie down…’
The satisfactions of being a university professor probably, of necessity, differ from those of being a high school or elementary school teacher. Teachers of children and teenagers become part of...
Apologize! Even if you didn’t do it
Late last week, my computer started to fill up with a string of angry e-mails from around the country, all making reference to the same thing, most using very similar...
This is who they were, and who they are
`My dad wants to know if you'll do it." The words -- spoken by my friend Gary Griffin, a keyboard player in touring rock bands -- was the prelude to...
The hero who sits by the side of the stage
Knowing they had virtually no chance of making safe landings, the 80 Doolittle Raiders -- 16 five-man crews in reconfigured B-25s -- took off for Japan from the deck of...