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...influence to have the opener miss a tour of England, and other episodes, much debated, cemented his belief that Bradman was inclined to betray team-mates and cover his tracks. Were these grievances playing on Fingleton when he wrote The Immortal Victor Trumper, a biography of his cricketing hero? He could wait no longer than its second paragraph to proclaim: "To me, Trumper remains the greatest batsman who ever lived. Bradman could be rightly advanced against him, but whereas Bradman ... operated upon bowlers like a butcher at the abattoirs ... Trumper was like a surgeon, dissecting everything that was offered against...
...away from the record of Republicans in Congress and the White House. Make copious use of outrage and emotion. Rather than a single, unified message, Schmidt planned a multifaceted attack, which would be stitched together under the banner of "Country First," a phrase that both highlighted McCain's war-hero biography and suggested Obama was a selfish, pandering elitist...
...performed stand-up at clubs • Was a guest star on Murder She Wrote (1989-1990) and many other TV shows and starred in a movie called Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989) • Made several appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, his childhood hero (1986-1991) • Moved to Los Angeles in 1983 and got his first major TV role in 1985 with a spot on the sitcom Sara, starring Geena Davis. The show was soon cancelled. • Created his first show, Politically Incorrect, in 1993. It premiered on Comedy Central and later moved...
...often happens in moments of crisis, the candidates were themselves, only more so. McCain was the action hero, who promised to do the brave, hard things that no one else could. Fire the SEC Chairman! Suspend the campaign! Let's Make a Deal! He was a human diorama of the Great Man theory of history. Of course, getting credit for bringing all parties to the table to reach a historic agreement that pretty much everyone hates may make him wonder if action is overrated, especially after his campaign's self-congratulatory statements ended up being premature. Even with stakes higher...
...hero James Baldwin once wrote: “It is the responsibility of free men to trust and to celebrate what is constant—birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not think so—and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change. I speak of change not on the surface but in the depths—change in the sense of renewal...