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Together with bouncy pitches and energy-sapping heat, Hookes seemed to be a constant in Australia?s summer game during three decades; as player, commentator and coach he dazzled and bemused the public. Like Allan Border, who was born in the same year, Hookes was a bridge between two glorious periods of Australian cricket: old enough to have played with the Chappells, Lillee, Marsh and Walters, young enough to have been on the scene with the Waughs, Taylor and Warne. Hookes had the charisma of the former era and the aggressive hunger to win of the latter. In some ways...
...room for his twin brother, Mark, became known for a gritty, attacking style that led the Australians to 40 wins in 53 tests, including an unparalleled 16 straight victories from October 1999 to March 2001. During his 18-year career, Waugh scored 10,660 runs, second only to countryman Allan Border. Waugh's exit from the pitch will be delayed until January, at the close of a series against India...
...staffing industry has become increasingly specialized, creating niche firms for temporary doctors, nurses, accountants, engineers, IT consultants, legislative aides, even personal assistants for celebrities. Despite such tailorization, the uncertainty and volatility for the individual temp workers remain. "You have no guarantee of tomorrow," says Allan Thompson, 48, a state-and local-tax specialist in Dayton, Ohio, who signed on with a temporary accounting-services firm this spring. "But people could arguably say there's no guarantee when you have a full-time job either...
...heap. Dickens wrote best-selling novels, but they weren't considered "commercial" or "popular" or "your-euphemism-here." They were just novels. No one looked down on Scott and Tennyson and Stowe for being wildly successful. No one got all embarrassed when they were caught reading the new Edgar Allan Poe over lunch...
...turned out, Arbus would be crucial in the transition that documentary photography made from the social concerns of the '30s to the personal obsessions it began to take on in the 1950s. She went to private schools but never college. In 1941 she married Allan Arbus, who worked in her father's store. After the war they opened a fashion-photography partnership. In the '50s she studied with Lisette Model, a photographer who knew the power of people thrust forward heavily into the frame. In time Arbus' marriage decayed, but all the while she was creating herself...