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As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were no Jews left in Europe. But I found in my European wanderings that many of them had gone back and rebuilt their lives.

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I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is good to see that we are heroic.

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I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

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I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.

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I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something - something that I think is important.

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What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.

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Baseball players are not specialists; they all have to do it all. That is why I, and many aficionados, dislike the American League's practice of replacing the pitcher with a designated hitter. This creates two players who do not have to do it all.

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Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.

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People motivated by fear do not act well.

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I would like to know what politicians eat on the campaign trail, what Picasso ate in his pink period, what Walt Whitman ate while writing the verse that defined America, what mid-westerners bring to potlucks, what is served at company banquets, what is in a Sunday dinner these days, and what workers bring for lunch.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 7th, 1948

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