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Sports Arena
Stepanek Steps Up
When will American tennis?
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It is very well for Mayor Vincent Gray to show up at the Classic and hand out a few awards and boast about how well everything is for “our kids,” but why is he putting cronies on the city payroll complete with SUV’s and other perks? What are they doing that can be more important than tennis-and-academic scholarships? Why do the people mismanaging public schools getting high salaries while the staff on the ground at the Southeast Center, the men and women actually in touch with the kids they are trying desperately to keep in school and on the courts and off the streets, are making do with barely more than volunteer stipends?
How we tax, how we educate, how we set priorities — you cannot extrapolate from professional sports, which after all are only that, sports. It is difficult not to see in the poor state of American tennis, however, a reflection of a much larger, deeper, and graver malady in American society. By all evidence, we are not creating and nurturing and maintaining the conditions that make citizens and champions, patriots and devoted parents: adults.
*Photograph by Katherine Ruddy
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Roger Kaplan, a Washington-based writer, covers the Middle East and Africa (and tennis) for The American Spectator.
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Clint| 8.8.11 @ 7:56AM
Why Isn't He Wearing His Tennis Helmet ?
Hmmmmmm ?
Mike Hawk| 8.8.11 @ 8:18AM
No face mask either. Jeez.
Bernfp| 8.8.11 @ 9:57AM
I would comment further but I'm off to my old guys doubles matches. Tennis is a great sport and I appreciate the commentary on it. Maybe if Barack Obama played tennis rather than basketball he would see the need for individual responsibility in getting the ball back over the net, keeping it in play and winning the point by proactive action, rather than waiting for the handout from the umpire. But I doubt it. His golf swing demonstrates his lack of analysis, study of what works, application of sustained effort to achieve better measurable results and probably faked golf scores. We can't know that though because those results are locked up tighter than his Columbia course work and grades.
Clint| 8.8.11 @ 10:07AM
Have Fun Bernie.
Hoveround Doubles Matches Are Very Exciting, Especially When They Crash & Are Pinned Under Their Huverounds.
Make Sure You Wear Your Huveround Helmet.
Doctor Right| 8.8.11 @ 1:55PM
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The simple answer is to put a fan in the room to circulate the air. The increased air flow will help the paint dry faster. You can also accomplish this by opening one window in the room you have painted and another window in a different room. This should create a cross draft that will also help dry the paint.
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Mike Hawk| 8.8.11 @ 3:29PM
Oil base is a misnomer. These are actually various solvent reducable resins. Usually an Alkyd or Emanel. The resins are the base. The solvent is the vehicle and the pigments added for the color. The base resin is reducable in water or a solvent.
Mike Hawk| 8.8.11 @ 3:30PM
That is Enamel. There are water reducable enamels however.
Doctor Right| 8.8.11 @ 5:20PM
Really? I thought only acrylics were water-soluble. I've never seen a water-soluble enamel.
Groad| 8.8.11 @ 6:48PM
Latexes are the most common water reducibles. I should have said latex enamel, there are also Acrylic enamels. Acrylic laquers were what most automive coatings were years ago. Paint chemistry has been one of the unreported high tech advances we have made in the US.
POST American| 8.8.11 @ 11:14PM
----'70's Show' Tavistock/Rockefeller
'Calm--place n' see' --ALERT!
ALL this for an America without balls.
REALLY
TRULY
SADLY