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...right ?fixable problems caused by a lack of concentration in practice. As for this series, "While our personnel might be similar," Ponting writes in his just-released Captain's Diary 2006, "I can assure you we are no longer the same team. We are better players because we have learnt there is no end to how far you can improve, provided you keep on working...
...florid capital letters—I need only pay a $300 “research clearance fee” and then I can begin.Yes, it’s my third consecutive summer in Africa, but, as in any good fable, there’s a lesson to be learnt. I’ve learned plenty about frustrating tales of post-colonial Africa. Try, at least, to conclude gingerly on the scarce, redemptory point:Africa is a continent of many countries. If researching in the archives of one Swahili-speaking former British colony doesn’t quite come...
...Indian government: While preserving existing peace-talks, they must act fast to outthink terrorists. Meanwhile, the Indian people and media need to resist the temptation to provide a religious or nationalistic slant to terrorism before any evidence is collected—I would hope we’ve learnt that lesson by now. Ravi Agrawal ’05-’06 was a Crimson news editor. He is presently eating mangoes and writing at home before tasting the real world starting next month in London...
...derive in no small part from the strain of being Zizou. He told an interviewer two years ago, "It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up. And, for me, the most important thing is that I still know who I am. Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle [a Berber region of Algeria] from...
...undoubtedly sound like a Hallmark card gone awry. Yet to me, my journey through rowing, progressing from slow, unwieldy, and largely unsuccessful boats on the Schuylkill, to quick, efficient boats on the Charles, to the coach's launch is the perfect metaphor for my journey through life. I've learnt that nothing ever gets any simpler, and experience is the best teacher...