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...fine wingers in their Cup squad, but they'd still love to have a healthy Jonah Lomu, who - as the most devastating ball-runner the game had seen - ignited the '95 Cup in South Africa and put rugby in a spotlight that hasn't dimmed. Since the game's birth in 1823, countless players have combined imposing size and strength with a sprinter's speed, but none in the prodigious quantities that Lomu, age 19 in 1995, brought to bear. Lomu's apogee occurred in the semifinal against England. It's been suggested that as he was performing the pregame...
...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 than his nature allowed. The book's very first line, which has Guinness admitting that "my mother was a whore ? when she gave birth she called the bastard Guinness but my father was probably the bloody cook," is a jolt. It is also the first flash of his occasional viciousness, here darkly humorous, often plain nasty. According to Read, he often treated his wife, Merula, with disdain, putting her down in public and insisting...
...Birth of a Book
...that El Al’s security policy is such that she can’t sell me a one-way ticket unless I have an Israeli passport. Another technicality: I don’t have mine with me. I show her that my American passport confirms my birth in Israel, and she makes a rare exception. When I get on the flight my resolve crumbles—I’ve attained my task, no more planning—but I’m too exhausted to do anything about...
...performance art all over the world. Last March, at the International Festival of Women in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Bezreh transformed herself into a saran-wrapped mummy that chanted, “I’ve got something that you’ll really like.” She then gave birth to a baby doll with scissors and saran wrap sleight of hand...