Word: englands
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...Italy, I stood atop the ruined fortress that looms over the ancient town of Montalcino, the birthplace of Brunello, just 40 km southeast of Siena. From the fortress, I devoured the panoramic view of the Tuscan countryside. In the distance, the grapevine leaves were as colorful as New England's autumnal best. Clumps of olive trees and upright cypresses were shadowed by the brooding Monte Amiata. The whole ambience was distilled in the Brunello I was drinking. Seeing my red-wine-stained teeth, a friend handed me some freshly plucked sage leaves and instructed me to rub my teeth clean...
...sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life, and science was forced to submit to religion. Intelligent design is a fleeting but dangerous effort to maintain a position that, in the face of science, becomes less and less credible with the passage of time. Roy Heath Truro, England...
...South Florida (U.S.F.) in Tampa, wrote a letter to an associate in Kuwait bragging that the Beit Lid carnage was "an example of what P.I.J. could do" and soliciting funds for the bombers' families. A year earlier, the records show, al-Arian faxed to Islamic Jihad bosses in England and the Middle East a proposal that he run the group's finances. And in 1991, at Palestinian gatherings around the U.S., al-Arian exhorted audiences to "damn" the U.S. and Israel "until death" and said God considered Jews "monkeys and swine...
...laser of public scrutiny has fixed on three of Australia's highest-profile mentors. Wayne Bennett quit as coach of the Australian rugby league team on Dec. 9, a week after the Australian Rugby Union sacked Eddie Jones as coach of the Wallabies. Despite a catastrophic mission failure in England and calls for a change at the helm, John Buchanan has kept his job as coach of the national cricket team. In temperament and style, the three coaches have little in common. But perhaps their setbacks these past few months can be traced to the same thing: each...
...Before the capitulation to New Zealand in the Tri-Nations final on Nov. 26, it had been 27 years since Australia had lost a rugby league series or tournament. Bennett knows the game backwards, but in England he seemed to forget some immutable footballing truths, like selecting sides based on form rather than loyalty, and ensuring that if a team is nothing else, it should at least be keen. In the final, "Australia looked old, tired and bored," wrote former New South Wales coach Phil Gould, who used to inspire his players with war stories or late-night walks...