Feliks Dzierzynski (1877ￚ1926), a.k.a. “Iron Felix,” was one of the architects of the Red Terror. Vyacheslav Molotov (1890ￚ1986) coldly oversaw agricultural collectivization that resulted in 11 million people being worked to death. Vyacheslav...
To my dear friends in the Philippines—indeed, to each of the 109 million people living in that sprawling archipelago—I would like to say that we Americans have not always been the best allies. Now, it’s true that we helped you kick the Spanish...
To a large extent, we still adhere to the proverb “Of the dead, say nothing but good” which can be traced back to a Spartan named Chilon in the sixth century BC; the Latin version is De mortuis nil nisi bonum. As soon as a very fallible person...
(1952) January 1—Kentucky beats TCU, 20-7, in Cotton Bowl; Georgia Tech beats Baylor, 17-14, in Orange Bowl; Illinois beats Stanford, 40-7, in Rose Bowl; Maryland beats Tennessee, 28-13, in Sugar Bowl. January 9—Boston Red Sox’ Ted Williams...
January 10—Coco Chanel dies. January 17—Baltimore Colts beat Dallas Cowboys, 16-13, in Super Bowl 5. January 25—Charles Manson and three female followers convicted of Tate-La Bianca murders; Idi Amin takes power in Uganda. February 4—NASDAQ...
I have opined elsewhere that Pete Maravich should have declared independence from his father the day he graduated from high school in Raleigh, North Carolina. At LSU, Press’s boy never played a lick of defense and did not grasp what team...
Since Audrey Lim resides in the Deokso (first syllable pronounced as “duck”) district of Seoul, I had been there numerous times. And whenever I disembarked from the red 1700 bus or came out of Deokso Subway Station, I would turn to my left and...
A few blocks north of the UT Law School sits 3103 Benelva Drive. Now a vacant lot, it held an old wooden duplex with a carport when I lived there in 1982. The ground-level apartment in which I resided was quite small. My friend Brian Ullom...
Just across the street from Halla Classic is Harrington Tower. Its basement is given over to a series of restaurants, one of which is Oh Han Soo Beef Noodles. I have had lunch there many a time. But I noticed that its manager, 29-year-old Han...
Sometimes I think back to those days, especially between 1962 and 1965, when I sat in a circle with a dozen or so other children in a Sunday School class at Casa Linda Presbyterian Church in Dallas. Who was our teacher? Did she—such teachers were...
“Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen, mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.” Those words were spoken by Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators, who had a heck of a fastball himself. Wood (Boston Red Sox and...
There was no reason to shade the truth when I wrote about Christian McCaffrey of the Carolina Panthers in 2020. I opined that he was then the top running back in the NFL and—on the basis of his first three seasons—the finest White runner the...
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