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...Hayden. When selectors ended Healy's Test career in 1999, Australians lost a record-breaking wicketkeeper who more than occasionally saved his side with his bat. His replacement, Adam Gilchrist, proved to be an improvement on greatness?an almost equally accomplished gloveman who became, if not his country's finest batsman, certainly its cleanest and most dashing hitter. Of all examples of Australian extravagance this past decade, none has been more demoralizing for opponents than the sight of Gilchrist marching to the crease...
...Atlantic are perennial outcasts in the discussion of college football’s powerhouses. The region’s most recognized program—Joe Paterno’s Penn State Nittany Lions—has long neglected East Coast competition to tackle the Midwest’s finest in the Big Ten. Even Boston College fled the inappropriately named Big East...
...outstanding rookie contributors a season ago. Tay, the flashy passer who thrives off penetration and a pull-up jumpshot, stymied slower defenses in the second half of the Ivy season. And beginning with a dominant opening performance against Dartmouth, Rollins emerged as one of the league’s finest post players in just her freshman season.Rollins finished the season as the Crimson’s leading scorer, averaging 10.8 points per game despite missing the first 10 games of the season with an arm injury. The team’s sparkplug off the bench, Tay led Harvard in steals...
...Planet Close-Ups Re "Mapping Mars" [Oct. 16]: with space travel being one of humankind's finest achievements, I was quite distressed to see that the beautiful pictures taken by the Mars Opportunity rover and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter were buried inside the magazine. Those images should have made Time's cover. Doug Travis Livonia, Michigan...
...Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, frequently tell their guests to shut up, and turn off the microphones when they hear viewpoints opposed to their own. George Peterman New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. Red Planet Close-Ups Re "Mapping Mars" [Oct. 16]: with space travel being one of humankind's finest achievements, I was quite distressed to see that the beautiful pictures taken by the Mars Opportunity rover and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter were buried inside the magazine. Those images should have made Time's cover. Doug Travis Livonia, Michigan, U.S. While it was intriguing to see the pictures from Mars...