My guess is that in the rest of the world, when someone decides to commit billions of municipal bucks to building a stadium for their city their first thoughts generally go immediately to the architecture. My guess is that the Beijing Olympics organizers didn’t sit down on day one and say, “First off: Which fast-food [...]

The heat is so intense it feels as if the sky is going to start melting from above, and below, rises off the parking lot asphalt in shimmery ribbons. But a hundred yards away down on the beach, the ocean breakers are rolling in, and the kids are wading and laughing, and what could be [...]

When he turns from his computer to introduce himself, after pausing the replay of last night’s Phillies game, my immediate thought is: This sandy-haired, little-kid-smiling guy looks way too young to have just turned forty.
And I tell him so.
“I’m lucky, I guess,” he says.
Right. He’s lucky.
It’s a kid’s face. It really is. And then, [...]