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...million, New Zealand has long punched above its sporting weight. Over the years, it has spawned the world's best miler (John Walker), one of cricket's greatest fast bowlers (Richard Hadlee) and yachtsmen skilled enough to win the America's Cup twice. While all of these men knew how it felt to compete under a nation's expectation, the All Blacks are a case apart. Failure has never been an option for them. Their hardheaded coach Graham Henry sounds positively Nietzschean when he declares: "The success of our rugby team is important to the psyche of the nation...
...audio reels are as compelling. Warrant Officer Andrew Stockton relives the moment his arm was blown off by a grenade: "I reached up to my arm which I knew had been hit - it felt like I'd been hit with a sledgehammer. There was no massive pain, it was just numb. It felt like raw steak, to be honest. So I grabbed hold of the artery that runs underneath and just pinched it as hard as I could." The shrapnel removed from Stockton's arm is on display. It still contains pieces of his uniform...
Remus Lupin sat in the chair in the teacher's lounge closest to the coffee booth. He stirred his magically around with a finger, taking a long sigh in and a long sigh out. He knew that tomorrow he would start feeling ill again (since it was only three days from the full moon), and he really didn't feel like getting sick. He ran his fingers through his light brown hair and looked deep within the black, bitter coffee with a blank expression...
...That's a lot of scary movies. You don't have a trailer or a preconceived notion, so you don't anticipate any shocks and scares. When I saw Saw (2004) there I was pretty freaked out by it. I think it disturbed me more than someone who knew what to expect. It was the same with Hostel (2005) a year later. But that's the whole point of the Festival...
...Romney, most Republicans don't associate them with the surge, as they do John McCain. Most either don't know what the GOP front runners think or think they agree with them and support a Baker-Hamilton-style drawdown. In a July Hotline poll, only 17% of Republicans knew that Giuliani opposes any troop withdrawal from Iraq, and only 12% knew that Romney did. For both men, that's good news. They don't want to be identified with a policy that's unpopular even among Republicans, let alone the rest of America. But they don't want a high...