[squash] rumsfeld plays hardball

Great piece from the NYT. For the last six years, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld [74] has slipped down to the Pentagon basement many afternoons and spent a heart-thumping hour playing squash. Mr. Rumsfeld is “very aggressive and he is very intense” on the court, says a former frequent partner [presumably he had a heart attack]. “He hits the ball well, but he doesn’t play by the rules,” says Chris Zimmerman, a devoted squash player who works in the Pentagon’s office of program analysis. He says Mr. Rumsfeld often wins points because, after hitting a shot, he does not get out of the way so his opponent has a chance to return the ball, a practice known in squash as “clearing.”