Berkley Center

Out of the locker room and onto the track field. You look around at the magnificent Wembley, filled with 80,000 supporters all chanting and cheering your name. This is the 100-meter final. The moment you’ve been waiting for! Just as the referee picks…

When Queen Victoria celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of 1897, it was said that the sun never set on the British Empire. The British Empire included territory on every inhabited continent, and Queen Victoria also used the title, “Empress of India.”

I remember being asked to draw and color the Olympic rings and pin them on the canvas bulletin board in my school’s auditorium. It was 1996 and I was six years old—the kind of kid that takes keen pleasure in coloring hills purple and people green. I…