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Sense of an Ending

Whether that nation can long endure

Oil and Holy Water

Bearing the cross of a natural resource

Slouching toward Democracy

Where have all the wise men gone?

Robert Sullivan

Robert Sullivan is the author of Flight of the Reindeer and other books. He previously worked for Sports Illustrated, Time, and Life.

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Good Eggs

They hatched so much more than a basketball team January | February 2026
Back in the 1960s, as I delivered the morning Boston Globe out of a canvas sack, I was taking lessons from professors of the sporting press. The faculty included Bud Collins, Harold Kaese, and Ray Fitzgerald, eminences most eminent. Kids like me were Sox fans foremost, also partisans of the Patriots in the go‑go American Football…