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...simply the first of the post-baby boom generation to get this close to Australia's top job. He hit his teens as Countdown began defining youth culture, as Gough Whitlam's Labor project was on the skids and as Kerry Packer busted apart the cricket and media establishments. Next came university - a two-hour commute - and, after hours, the throbbing, beery era of Sydney's pub rock: Midnight Oil, INXS, the Angels, the Radiators. Latham and his cohorts first faced the job market in the prolonged recession of the early 1980s. He is old enough to remember the cold...
...medal. I hope we Indians learned something from it. That most of the celebrities involved in the Olympic-torch relay in New Delhi were not athletes is proof enough of the Indian government's attitude toward sports. There is very little promotion of any sport in India other than cricket, which does not help us win Olympic medals. Just participating in the Games is all that counts for many of us, including the Indian Sports Ministry. But as tennis great Martina Navratilova once remarked, "Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost." Winning matters...
...medal. I hope we Indians learned something from it. That most of the celebrities involved in the Olympic-torch relay in New Delhi were not athletes is proof enough of the Indian government's attitude toward sports. There is very little promotion of any sport in India other than cricket, which does not help us win Olympic medals. Just participating in the Games is all that counts for many of us, including the Indian Sports Ministry. But as tennis great Martina Navratilova once remarked, "Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost." Winning matters...
...medal. I hope we Indians learned something from it. That most of the celebrities involved in the Olympic torch relay in New Delhi were not athletes was proof enough of the Indian government's attitude toward sports. There is very little promotion of any sport in India other than cricket, which does not help us win Olympic medals. Just participating in the Games is all that counts for many of us, including the Indian Sports Ministry. But as tennis great Martina Navratilova once remarked, "Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost." Winning matters...
...Nazis while interned in Germany. He was not coerced, but he clearly misjudged the seriousness of his action. In Britain, politicians denounced him in Parliament and columnists in print. Libraries withdrew his books. The British government investigated him for treason, and editors wouldn't touch his writings with a cricket bat. The man whose vision of Britain is now engraved in the popular mind could not go home again. Concludes McCrum, literary editor of Britain's The Observer: "The Second World War finished Wodehouse." Not quite. He found a new home and, eventually, even greater fame after...