Liberal Holland hits the cultural panic button
The News Review:
- Liberal Holland hits the cultural panic button
- Sports letters: Fire Long, now
- Mission to prove Storm wrong
- CALENDAR – New York Times
- HOME WORK; One Man’s To-Do List Is Another’s Nemesis
Liberal Holland hits the cultural panic button
Times Online – Nov 19, 2006
As some people loved to point out, “Auschwitz” was the inevitable destination of bigotry. In Holland, a country that had lost 70% of its Jewish population in the Holocaust, this warning had a particularly grim potency. After the murder of Theo van Gogh, the film maker, two years ago by a home-grown Muslim jihadi in Amsterdam (Van Gogh had made a film, Submisssion, about the oppression of Muslim women), a consensus rose among a section of the Dutch commentariat: multiculturalism had been a disaster; appeasement in the name of tolerance had led straight to the slaughter of a man who had simply exercised his right to free speech. Van Gogh, a born provocateur who liked to test the limits of freedom by being as offensive as possible — to Jews, Christians, Muslims, or indeed anyone he disapproved of — has now been reborn as a kind of patron saint of Dutch liberty, the rightful heir of Erasmus and Spinoza. Van Gogh was no Spinoza, let alone an Erasmus, but there clearly is a problem (not only in Holland, of course) when people resort to extreme violence, or the threat to use extreme violence, against fellow citizens whose views they find offensive. There can be no tolerance of Islamist revolutionaries who believe that people who attack their faith should die, just as there can be no tolerance for any other type of political or religious violence. But do the murders committed in the name of Islam in Amsterdam, Madrid or London really mean that the multicultural idea is dead?.
Sports letters: Fire Long, now
San Diego Union Tribune – Nov 19, 2006
Tom Craft was like a Vince Lombardi compared to Long. It is time the school admits its mistake and goes after Jim Harbaugh. Ugh, the SDSU fan base is going to shrink to cheerleaders and the band if this doesn't stop. TIMOTHY CUNNINGHAM, Carlsbad
FOOLED AGAIN: Maybe I am just gullible. Or maybe the Padres' PR machine is just that good. But they fooled me again!
Sports letters
Address: Sports Letters, The San Diego Union-Tribune, P… Defensively? Much more range. Offensively? Solid rookie campaign. Barfield would be a home-grown part of the Padres' new young infield for years to come. Then last week he was shipped to Cleveland for a minor league third baseman, and word was that second basemen like Barfield were dime a dozen. How can it be that our hottest prospect is now the Cleveland second baseman, and the PR machine can now start the Kevin Kouzmanoff Rookie of the Year campaign?
Well, for the time being at least we still have five-tool outfield prospect Ben Johnson because he is really going to be something special. Excuse me? To the Mets? They fooled me again!
ROBERT GIORDINI, Tierrasanta.
Mission to prove Storm wrong
The Age – Nov 19, 2006
The Melbourne Storm andleague administrators are investing substantial sums into schoolsand developing local talent. The Victorian Rugby League, with the Storm, has introduced anacademy program where about 20 of the best under-18 players arenurtured through a training, skills and weights program. General manager of development Greg Brentnall said he hoped theStorm’s first home-grown first-grader could emerge from fourplayers who had been invited to a training camp in January. BaysideSecondary College last year introduced a scholarship program andBrentnall said Melbourne had three school competitions with four tofive schools in each. “The number of kids participating in clinics or some type ofrugby league activity, I think, is getting up around 48,000contacts this year, which is huge when you are trying to develop aninterest in the game first and also develop an interest in theStorm,” Brentnall said. But Mathew Morunga, president of theWaverley Oakleigh club, said a side-effect of the rugby league’sfocus on establishing school competitions and its cherry-picking oftop talent was that it had decimated the local competition and theopportunities for those such as Paczkowski who were not rated inthe top echelon of juniors were limited. “The rugby league system down here isn’t big enough to supportschools as well as (weekend) competition,” Morunga said.
CALENDAR – New York Times
New York Times – Nov 19, 2006
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HOME WORK; One Man’s To-Do List Is Another’s Nemesis
New York Times – Nov 19, 2006
Michael Rothbard, my neighbor on Long Island, is a prime example of the last sort. A child of the city, he grew up believing all chores could be solved by one simple activity: you picked up the phone and called the building superintendent. After moving to the suburbs and buying a home, he had trouble making the mental adjustment to the requirements of homeownership. It was because of his condition, congenital laziness. ”It’s a disease there are few known cures for,” he says. He hires someone to do most of his Saturday chores; his philosophy is that he works so hard all week that he has already justified his existence. Michael’s realization that Saturday chores were not going to be a part of his life came one day two years ago, after his significant other suggested that he should mow the lawn… He hires someone to do most of his Saturday chores; his philosophy is that he works so hard all week that he has already justified his existence. Michael’s realization that Saturday chores were not going to be a part of his life came one day two years ago, after his significant other suggested that he should mow the lawn. (She didn’t actually ask, but rather only observed that the grass had grown so long that it was dying. ) He grudgingly agreed. An odyssey of frustration followed. First, he wrenched his neck trying to start the mower. Then, he realized that since it had sat unused for several summers, it probably needed fresh gas.