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...Lorraine Latham's four children. In one respect, there's no mystery to the man. He's 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...
...Deeble, a bright young academic answering a summons, met the head of the Australian Labor Party to discuss Deeble's pet topic. In the home of a Labor parliamentarian, Deeble was calm as he spoke on the notion of a universal health insurance system with the imposing Opposition leader, Gough Whitlam. "Why should I have been nervous?" Deeble, 73, says now. "I knew more about the subject than he did." Whitlam liked what he heard and asked Deeble and colleague Dick Scotton to put something in writing. Within a year their scribblings were Labor policy, and seven years later...
...Holy Cross secondary has allowed 307.5 yards passing per game in 2004 while struggling to guard against “the big play,” surrendering three passing touchdowns of at least 30 yards in its first two games. Cornerbacks Ted Nugent (5’7) and Casey Gough (5’10) match up particularly poorly against Edwards (6’0) and Mazza (6’3) and will be vulnerable in single coverage situations...
...winning an election. He can visit the marginal seats; show himself to be a listener and look beyond the opinion polls into the eyes of voters. For all the resources of incumbency, the public won't tolerate a government it thinks is faulty or outdated. Just think of Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser and Paul Keating, and the awesome tide of voters that one day showed them the exit...
...most celebrated director. His films Hero, Raise the Red Lantern and Ju Dou were all nominated for Best Foreign-Language Film Oscars. His latest project, House of Flying Daggers, is a big-budget martial-arts epic in which Andy Lau co-stars. Zhang, 52, spoke with TIME's Neil Gough at his editing studio in Beijing...