The juxtaposition would be funny if it weren't so serious. Scenes of joy in Baghdad were on the front pages of every newspaper in the country yesterday. Iraq, a very literate country, was celebrating in the streets. The population was filled with the hope that maybe, just maybe, it could celebrate the freedoms that have been denied it for a generation. Freedoms like the freedom of speech. Meanwhile, on this nation's sports pages yesterday, baseball's Hall of Fame president, Dale Petroskey, was declaring that, because of the politics of actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, the Hall was canceling its...
