Maybe we'll get into the end-of-year game ourselves in '09, something like Top Ten Work Avoidance Efforts might work - and with that in mind we're nominating today's NYTimes piece on news of Christmases past.
The ur-event of Christmas past in the greater New York region, the one whose happening in some sense led to all the others, was George Washington’s historic crossing of the Delaware River to attack Trenton, in 1776. Not to leap too far ahead of the game here, but one cannot help but think that but for Washington’s feat, Bernard King of the Knicks would never have been able to score 60 points, 208 years later, in a valiant losing effort against the Nets on Christmas Day 1984.
[From News May Slow, but Doesn’t Stop, Even on Christmas - NYTimes.com]
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