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...faking pain to gain advantage - real pain follows the rugby player everywhere - and you're certain to see acts of sportsmanship and good grace in defeat rarely seen at other high-stakes tournaments. Minnows like Namibia, Uruguay and Georgia may suffer hidings, but fair-minded Australian crowds will warmly applaud their efforts. The victor is anyone's guess, but this much can be predicted with confidence: over six weeks that side will have played with a power and precision not seen before on the fields of this glorious game...
...always appeared to shun public attention and yet at the same time made damn sure he got it. He forbade any tribute after his death. Yet he published two further volumes of diaries (revealing as little as possible), and according to Read would be offended if congregations didn't applaud after his readings at others' memorial services. It was what Read, quoting John le Carré, calls Guinness's propensity to "back into the limelight." Far from the pottering, benevolent figure Guinness presents in his own books, Read reveals a frequently cruel, ambitious and selfish man striving to be better...
...walk out of this room and announce to the Palestinian people that we had concluded an agreement but that there would be concessions on the Palestinian side," Qurei told Beilin. "The people would stone us. But if Arafat were to go out and say the same thing, people would applaud him." For now, however, Arafat seems too enthralled with the plaudits he's getting for obstinacy to even contemplate compromise. --With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Ramallah
...June 23, the Supreme Court handed down two important decisions on affirmative action policies at the University of Michigan. We applaud the court for upholding the constitutionality of affirmative action, which is an important tool used by universities to seek greater diversity. However, we believe that it should have upheld the systems at both the law school and the undergraduate program, rather than upholding only the former...
...second case, which challenged Michigan Law School’s use of affirmative action to pursue a “critical mass” of minority students, we applaud the Court’s decision to uphold the admission policy. Diversity is a very important goal for all universities, and critical mass is a bedrock of achieving it. Universities should reflect the makeup of the larger community as a whole, and this is important for two reasons: to build a coherent minority community within the university, and to attract more minority students to that community...