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Heike Evans's avatar

What a wonderful article - beautifully and empathetically written. I love the humanity that comes across in your writing - it has left me with a smile on a grey day at the southern tip of Africa. Thank you for sharing. AND...I love the title . It made me read the article - as I love the "should" be enough ...and I obviously thought you were talking about food.

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Christina Migone-Benfield's avatar

THANK YOU, Mr Jacobson. Engaging, delightful, "human" and brilliant as ever. Enjoying this over a cup of coffee and a croissant (no double helping) in Buenos Aires, on a rainy, glorious winter day, only a few blocks from ONCE, the oh so charming, Jewish quarter, where bagels abound....

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steven garside's avatar

Is Jacobson still calling the genocide in Gaza a blood libel? I wonder what it feels like being a modern day Holocaust denier..

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Monica's avatar

We should have all been spared the post match, on court, interviews. Excruciating.

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Ken's avatar

Roger Federer, among others has pointed out that a winning record can be had by taking roughly 55% of points. Anisimova probably lost by only a few percent under the remaining 45%. Called a rout or any such hyperbole, by someone most likely unable to return Anisimova's serve, is an unspeakable crime.

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Annie Dee's avatar

Thank you for this latest reflection. Having enjoyed your work for so many years - and introduced many of my students to its delights - reading today's piece made me wish I were still in the classroom to share it with my seniors.

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Stephen E Moss's avatar

Curious to know, when you write '6-0' are you thinking 'six-nil' or 'six-love'?

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