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It’s a stroll in the park for Serena Williams against Roberta Vinci London: Now that Roger Federer’s near-incomparable greatness has been extravagantly lauded by the whole world, including perhaps by the Piranha hunter-gatherers deep in the Amazon rainforest, it is time for normal service, just so we don’t miss the wood for the trees. In our obsession with numbers and records, we might have lost sight of the real reason why the Swiss genius is peerless — the sublime beauty of his art. Is Mozart matchless because of his total number of compositions or because his music sounds the way it does to our ears? Surely, to obsess with numbers at the expense of aesthetic appreciation is a form of sporting philistinism. Aesthetic experience is not quantifiable, yet when you sit and watch Federer it occurs to you that few men in the... [read full story]
A Swiss court granted Roman Polanski bail on Wednesday, accepting $4.5 million to allow him to remain under house arrest at his chalet. The director will stay in prison for up to 10 days while the Swiss government decides...
Source: The Energy Report; interviewed by Karen Roche, Publisher 11/25/2009 http://www.theenergyreport.com/pub/na_u/1222 Wherever you look, you can see evidence of growing momentum in the green energy movement. With interest in...
By LARRY LAGE , Associated Press AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - LeBron James scored 12 of his 34 points in the first quarter, helping the Cleveland Cavaliers build a cushion it used to cruise to a 98-88 win over the Detroit Pistons on...
Denver Nuggets' Carmelo Anthony, right, drives around Minnesota Timberwolves' Damien Wilkins in the first quarter of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009, in Minneapolis. Even in the Minnesota Timberwolves'...
