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...plus wickets he took as a West Indian speedster is a dressing-room visit in 1982 by the Australian captain. His side having just lost a Test match in Adelaide, the regal Greg Chappell strolled in with a message for his conquerors. "Gentleman, I'm going to be honest: you're better than us," Croft remembers Chappell saying. "But we are going to put plans in place so that, within 15 years, we're going to be not only world champions but world champions continuously." Though he'd later become a critic of player development programs based on technical coaching...
...This is my first time ever bringing a laptop to class. To be honest, I generally don’t like it when students use their laptops to take notes. What happened to the good old days of pencils, notepads, doodling, and note-passing? Now all we get are loud typers giving me a headache as they smash their keyboards. Maybe I’m just jealous that these people actually have real notes to study from later instead of my illegible scribbles and doodles of Ninja Turtles. Be careful, though, as doodling can be more dangerous than you realize...
After Regensburg, the mainstream Italian daily La Stampa ran the headline THE POPE AND BUSH ALLIED AGAINST TERROR. The association with the Iraq war and U.S. interrogation methods must have horrified the Pontiff, if only because it could undermine the church's honest-broker role in regional conflicts. "It's easy to say, 'Go Benedict! Hit the Muslims!'" says Gibson. "But that's not who he is. He is not a Crusader." Shortly before Regensburg, Benedict had endured Western criticism for repeatedly demanding a cease-fire after Israel's invasion of Lebanon. Angelo Cardinal Scola, a prot?...
What the West needs most today is not so much a dialogue with other civilizations but an honest dialogue with itself--one that acknowledges those traditions within Western civilization that are almost never recognized. Europe, in particular, must learn to reconcile itself with the diversity of its past in order to master the coming pluralism of its future...
...side of the issue?”He says that comedians in particular have opportunities to effectively “come down on one side.”“I love it when somebody just stops joking and has a flash that’s just honest,” Rees says.Rees cites a Sept. 25, 2006 episode of The Daily Show as one of those moments. After a montage of pundits reacting indignantly to an angry interview President Bill Clinton had given on Fox News, Stewart singled out a woman who said...