You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Reeves Wiedeman on Roger Federer’s new racquet: http://nyr.kr/157U3Rz
“In tennis circles, the switch seemed to mark an epochal shift: Roger Federer, the greatest tennis player of all time, had just admitted that he needed help.”
Illustration by Tom Bachtell.

How a hurricane brought an important Founding Father to America
How different would America have been without a hurricane that hit St. Croix in late August 1772? Without it, Alexander Hamilton may never have never shaped this country’s history.




