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...every blink, smile, spit and curse, and now help the umpires make hairline decisions on whether a batsman should be called in or out, the players should have plenty more to think about than match fixing. Once played sedately on the village greens of England and known as the gentlemen's game, cricket is transforming itself for wider appeal. Night games, sponsorships, teams in national colors instead of the traditional Test cricket whites, cheer leaders, Mexican waves, blasts of Kylie Minogue in between overs, even streakers - cricket has shown itself perfectly willing to embrace the vulgarities of modern sport...
...Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy—or even the integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us—the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes...
...into the picture. Watching The Hours, one finds oneself focusing excessively on the unfortunate prosthetic nose Kidman affects in order to look more like the novelist. And wondering why the screenwriter, David Hare, and the director, Stephen Daldry, turn Woolf, a woman of incisive mind, into a hapless ditherer. Gentlemen, she was only a part-time madwoman. Most of the time, she possessed one of the most interesting sensibilities of her century...
...regular 59 non-express line of middle-class peasants waiting to be scanned, and a few of the ruling elite came sashaying along the other side of the rope to the head of our line--it was line jumping, government sanctioned--and two hefty gentlemen with helmet hair and dangly cell phones butted in front of me as if by divine right and dumped their bags and laptops on the conveyor and forged ahead without a nod or a smile. It felt more than unpleasant; it felt un-American. But this is a Midwesterner talking. We were brought...
...Watchmen." For the last couple of years Moore has been the principle writer of multiple titles under the America's Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm Productions (an imprint of DC Comics, a subsidiary of TIME.com's parent corporation, AOL Time Warner). Out of the various projects, "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," "Tom Strong," and "Top Ten" among them, one title has particularly stood out. "Promethea" has just finished, with issue 23, a remarkable ten-issue story that can be described as nothing less than a cosmology in comix form...