The Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez was heading back to his office one day when he came upon a homeless African-American man playing Beethoven on a battered violin at a busy street corner Lopez learned that the man Nathaniel Ayers had once been a promising student at the famed Juilliard S

The challenges of living a long life

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At a time when baseball fans are dealing with disappointment and disillusionment in the face of the steroid scandals 11 star players from the 1950s and 1960s find a voice in Fay Vincent rsquo s latest venture into oral history Listening to them tell in their own words what it was like to play in

This book is not what I expected I had anticipated a memoir but A Life With Karol is less that and more what its title page describes as ldquo a conversation rdquo Thus while the book generally advances chronologically it moves forward and backward in time as the conversation develops As a c