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...Inspired by his fellow batsmen, Justin Langer transformed from a grafter into an opener who scored as freely as his bludgeoning partner Matthew 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...
...Then there's Australia's opulent batting talent. Of the top 10 all-time Australian run-scorers, seven have played post-1995, with the combined tally of the Waugh brothers, Ponting, Taylor, David Boon, Langer and Hayden nearing 60,000 runs. True, modern players' high representation on these lists is due partly to their tendency to play for longer than their predecessors did. Even so, no one questions the extraordinarily high caliber of recent Australian sides, which have recharged as well as dominated the Test scene. As he settled into international cricket in the early '90s, Warne discredited the prevailing...
...There's no missing the graying of Ponting's team, dubbed "Dad's Army" by former England great Ian Botham. Selectors have persisted, for example, with opening batsmen Hayden, 35, and Langer, 36, even though the batting reserves are strong. "I think in the last few years the selectors have failed to make the hard calls," says Lawson, who believes Hayden shouldn't have been picked for the last Ashes tour, when he struggled until he notched a century in the last Test. But even that didn't impress Lawson. "It was a self-centered hundred," he says. "When...
...Qaeda's grip in the remote region. "The loss of a series of al-Qaeda leaders since 9/11 has been substantial, but it's also been mitigated by what is frankly a pretty deep bench of low-ranking personnel capable of stepping up to assume leadership positions," General Michael Hayden, head of the CIA, told the Senate Armed Services Committee, on November 15. "Though a number of these people are new to the senior management, they're not new to jihad...
...intel chiefs are even more pessimistic over the prospects for Iraq if the U.S. is unable to ensure sufficient stability for the central government to exercise form of sovereignty over the country. The consequences of a failed Iraqi state would be "catastrophic" for Iraqis, Hayden warned. "It would plunge them deeper into chaos and the road out of it would be longer." The instability for the rest of region would be "almost as bad." The temptation of Iran and Syria to intervene "may become irresistible." And, Hayden worries, it "would embolden the worst of our enemies - certainly al-Qaeda...