Issue of 2007-01-08 Posted 2007-01-01
THE SPORTING SCENE
The Unbeautiful Game
by Adam Gopnik
What's happening to football?
Q. Gopnik has written many beautiful sentences in his article. Last
year we read Roger Angell's baseball wrap up which also was well
written. How do they contrast? Why is football "unbeautiful"?
OPEN SECRETS
by MALCOLM GLADWELL
Enron, intelligence, and the perils of too much information.
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/070108fa_fact
Q. Puzzles versus mysteries: Is the peril too much information or too
little context? How is this conundrum apply to the web or Google?
The phone book?
BIG PICTURES
by DAVID DENBY
Hollywood looks for a future.
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/070108crat_atlarge
Q. Time and technology march on. Will the future of movie watching
will be better or worse than today? Or the (imaginary?) golden age?
