Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.
Sport is born clean and it would stay that way if it was the athletes who ran it for the pleasure of taking part, but then the fans and the media intervene and finish up by corrupting it with the pressure that they exercise.
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
