Word: confirmation
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...which we all got an exciting “rules presentation” from Ivy League football head of officiating Jim Maconaghy. Among the major rule changes, officials will now call out the player’s number along with the infraction when announcing penalties, allowing NCAA referees to confirm what instant replay, telestrators and overzealous play-by-play announcers have been pointing out for years...
...opportunity for Kerry to revive his dying primary campaign by taking out a $6.4 million personal loan and making a counterintuitive pivot from New Hampshire to Iowa. But before Kerry signed off on the high-risk gambit, the candidate dispatched his old Boston hand Kiley to Iowa to confirm Mellman's numbers...
...story on Australia's Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., championed by the paper and about to face the U.S. Senate. The Canberra bureau suspects a growing acceptance within Labor ranks of the key bilateral deal, despite Latham's reluctance to publicly support it, and Mitchell's keen to confirm this. "It's not about Mark, it's not about supporting Howard, it's about policy ideas," he insists. The story, it's agreed, will be vigorously chased. Washington correspondent Roy Eccleston is called, late at night his time, and asked to write a piece on the FTA vote - straight...
...most of the foragers are back with their offerings. A shrewd question, quietly put to a government minister after a press conference, will lead to a major piece on late-term abortion policy. More text messages confirm the story on Indonesian terrorism is on its way. But a call from New Zealand correspondent Claire Harvey changes everything: Helen Clark's government has announced it's cutting ties with Israel following the jailing of two alleged Mossad spies for passport fraud. Whittaker's thrilled: "I think we've got a story that will get us out of trouble." Harvey rings back...
...very precisely, to 1947. Geologist Frank Reeves, then working for the Vacuum Oil Company, was conducting an aerial survey of the Canning Basin when he spotted the crater near Wolfe Creek. "He thought it was volcanic at first," says his daughter Peggy Reeves Sanday, "but was later able to confirm it was of meteoric origin." Sanday, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, grew up with stories about the crater but didn't visit it until 1999, when she learned tribal tales that were an anthropologist's treasure trove. Since then she has been back almost every year, collecting...