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...writing checks. But American officials still grumble that Japan is not taking enough responsibility for its own defense. (Since the Japanese forces in Iraq can only use their weapons in strictly defined circumstances, they have themselves had to be defended at various times by British, Dutch and Australian troops.) At a conference in Tokyo sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, just a day before the Futenma agreement, Lawless stunned his audience by blasting the inertia, complacency and inadequacy of Japan's armed forces. Rather than offering the usual congratulations for support in Iraq and the Indian...
...they played till dark on all manner of surfaces, ever desperate to outdo each other. Both Steve and Mark Waugh became players of distinction. But while Mark was the more stylish, it was Steve who retired with a Test batting average of over 50, and Steve who became an Australian captain, with a 71% winning record...
...Australian cricket misses him. As the Ashes were surrendered this northern summer, there were many times Australians wished Waugh would bustle to the crease. Did he ever feel like that? "I let go of those feelings the second I finished," he says. "I haven't really thought about playing since I retired. I haven't thought once about my stats or what I achieved." Instead, he's thrown himself into fatherhood, property development, charity work - and writing. A children's book might be next, he says, or a novel. And no, he's not planning a move into the commentary...
...Makybe had become one of just five dual winners in the 144-year history of Australia's best-loved horse race. None had managed the elusive hat trick. So on Nov. 1 the 106,480 people at the Flemington track (and around 10 million Australian television viewers), many of them teaming blue-and-red Makybe caps and masks with their feathers and ties, were more nervous than the favorite, who was characteristically unfazed by the heat and fuss. She didn't run the fastest (record-holder Kingston Rule was three seconds quicker in 1990) or carry the heaviest handicap weight...
...about to be replaced by paddock fences. Though Boss says he's never seen a horse with her recuperative powers, Makybe was spent after the race. So it seemed fitting that it was on the victor's podium that Santic, the engaging self-made tuna baron from the South Australian fishing town of Port Lincoln, announced to her "20 million owners" that their winner wouldn't race again. The crowd went home lingering over the inevitable comparisons with other track greats - a contest Boss has little time for. "They all have their own stories and they're all special...