SEPTEMBER 18, 2007 --

Thumbs up to Dr. and Mrs. Henry Kissinger, spotted by LPR leaving Yankee Stadium, after the Yankees September 4 win over Seattle.

These days, the people who stay for the whole game are in the minority. LPR applauds the Kissingers for upholding the tradition of staying till the last out is made.

Dr. and Mrs. Henry Kissinger

Not long afterward, September 4, LPR noticed that evening's winning pitcher, Chien-Ming Wang chatting posing for photos with a young woman in tennis clothes. The young woman, Chia-Jung Chuang, told LPR that she was playing in the U.S. Open, and was from Taiwan. Imagine that -- an athlete who does not set herself apart from people.

Googling later that evening, LPR learned that Ms. Chuang was the 11th ranked women's doubles player in the world and had won her quarter-finals match that afternoon.

Ms. Chuang, with doubles partner Yung-Jan Chan, reached the finals, losing to Nathalie Dechy (France) and Dinara Safina (Russia) 6-4, 6-2. As a result of her play at the Open, Ms. Chuang is now ranked No. 7 among the tennis world's women doubles players.

Chia-Jung Chuang

As for the Open's crowds -- LPR would say there are two classes of people in our society: those who go to the Open and those who do not.

(LPR agrees that Farm Aid probably did not come to NYC this year to give those who could not get Open tickets this year, a place to go the last day of the Open.)