Perchance they will arrive, but we tell them true, the best tables are taken - permanently. The hyperbolic snow job that preceded the stadiums had every Tom, Dick and Henrietta supping at the table of prosperity. Members of the Western Pennsylvania Restaurateurs Association are incredulous. PNC Park is up, and business is down. To succeed in the current era of big-time sports, we were informed time and again, the Pirates must fully tap many streams of revenue.
Fantasies die hard in the hypnotic world of boosterism and exploitation.
Goaded at Penn State Springtime at Penn State University, where fewer than 4 percent of its 40,571 students are black, tenders a fascinating study of legitimate fear goaded into near hysteria in State College. Penn State President Graham Spanier thinks enough of the turbulence that he has heightened security and signed off on black studies and scholarship initiatives. The university also agreed last week to give the vice provost in charge of diversity more authority, ending the brouhaha for now. Black Caucus President LaKeisha Wolf says her life is in danger. Ms. Wolf, life is too short as it is, and your hubris is unattractive.