Manny Ramirez returned to professional American baseball last week, having spent three months playing for a scandal-ridden league in Taiwan. How did his time there change him? Read about that, and other great stories from around the web.
Remade In Taiwan: Manny Ramirez's Season Abroad — BuzzFeed
Two years after he retired from baseball in disgrace, one of the greatest sluggers of his generation wound up playing on the other side of the world, the unlikely savior of a league whose reputation is as complicated as his own. And with a major league comeback possibly imminent, a half a season in Taiwan may have saved Manny Ramirez, too.
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How Carne Ross Created A New Kind of Diplomacy — BuzzFeed
The outspoken, Occupy-influenced ex-attaché pissed off England, changed the face of international relations, and inspired a John Le Carré novel. The ambassador for the Syrian National Coalition and the Polisario Front is a diplomat for an unsettled age.
Via: John Gara/Buzzfeed
Shooting the Messengers — British GQ
Ed Caesar on the hard choice faced by war reporters: never has technology made reporting from the front easier, and yet today, journalists, like Tim Hetherington, are often targets of violence. A sobering article, centered around Hetherington's Restrepo co-writer, Sebastian Junger, and his decision to quit conflict reporting.
Source: gq-magazine.co.uk
Golf in China Is Younger Than Tiger Woods, But Growing Up Fast — New York Times Sunday Magazine
Brook Larmer profiles Xie Chengfeng, an eight-year-old in Shenzhen, and other young golfers, whose entire lives are devoted to the cultivation of their games. Will they be the sport's next greats?
Via: Sim Chi Yin/VII Mentor Program, for The New York Times
