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...Melbourne Cricket Ground, soccer players endured unforeseen conditions for Summer Olympians--Antarctic winds and waves of screeching SEAGULLS that strafed the athletes and occasionally landed on the field during play...
...national hero in their country's entire history is Don Bradman. Don who? No, Bradman didn't lead Australia to political independence (in fact, Aussies still bow to Britain's Queen Elizabeth) or fight off the Japanese during World War II. Rather he was a spectacular cricket player in the 1930s and '40s. It's rather like comparing Babe Ruth with George Washington...
...character is praised as effusively as his swimming. His manager, Dave Flaskas, says he "doesn't waste energy trying to fake a persona." His father Ken says he and wife Margaret have raised an "old-style person": trustworthy, decent and clean-living. Ken's father Cec was a frustrated cricket player who lived vicariously through his three sons' athletic pursuits. This was suffocating for Ken, who vowed to let his two children play pressure free...
...character is praised as effusively as his swimming. His manager, Dave Flaskas, says he "doesn't waste energy trying to fake a persona." His father Ken says he and wife Margaret have raised an "old-style person": trustworthy, decent and clean-living. Ken's father Cec was a frustrated cricket player who lived vicariously through his three sons' athletic pursuits. This was suffocating for Ken, who vowed to let his two children play pressure free...
Going on the offensive against Gore's character is a risk for George W. Bush, since he's more or less built a campaign on not doing so: that is, on elevating the "tone" of public discourse. (Of course, the notion that it's somehow not cricket to suggest that your opponent should not be elected is one of the more ridiculous newer rules of politics, but Bush has been one of its chief advocates.) As a safeguard, "Really" (financed by the Republican National Committee but OK'd by the Bush camp) follows the trendy and insulting strategy of trying...