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...them, to the point where the drawn match?the somnolent one, anyway, that blight on the game?has all but vanished. As Australia rose, then soared, so did the notion that Test teams should have a coach to complement the captain in finetuning their performance. Between 1986 and '96, Bob Simpson was crucial in taking Australia from the bottom of the pile to the top; his successors, especially incumbent John Buchanan, have been innovative in keeping them there...
...afield. Similarly elfin in appearance, Newsom echoes both the futuristic and the ancient at once, her willingness to look backwards setting her apart from her Icelandic contemporary. The poetry of all five songs is astonishing. The text is more complex—at least formally—than even Bob Dylan. Where he weaved stories on an intricate but predictable meter, Newsom spins an ever-evolving sequence of rhyme schemes. In “Emily,” she paints an organic tale of a dying kingdom, and the swoop and pull of the orchestration (arranged by Van Dyke Parks...
...rising red sun. Oh, I get it! It’s about World War II! My guess is that the big noise from those big guns sounds a lot like thunder, so you could perhaps call the Pacific Ocean the “sea of thunder.” Bob Woodward has a one-line review of it on the back, so you know it’s the real deal...
...those are just two of many theories floating around. Noting the victories of Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland and Pennsylvania Senate candidate Bob Casey, both of whom frequently discussed their faith, Jim Wallis, a liberal Christian minister who has advised Democrats to emphasize their religious values, wrote on his blog "when Democrats take a more morally sensible and centrist position on issues like abortion, they do better than liberal Democrats have done...
...party trying to win minority voters and even moderate white voters by diversifying its ranks and avoiding race-baiting tactics it has used in the past. Considering that the party has been accused of using similar tactics in certain key election races this year, most notably the Harold Ford-Bob Corker Senate contest in Tennessee, Lott's reemergence might not exactly project the image the G.O.P. wants right...