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...week tour, during which they will defend the Ashes against the strongest English side for at least 20 years. The mind games will intensify on June 19, when the two countries contest an early installment of a limited-overs tournament. The main event starts next month at Lord's, venue for the first of five Tests. McGrath needs one wicket to take his tally in Tests to 500, a mark reached by only three other bowlers. If he can manage 21 wickets for the series, he'll pass the West Indian Courtney Walsh as the game's most prolific fast...
...10—they became engaged to be married. While watching television, Ms. Heller turned to reach for the remote. When she turned back, Mr. Alfono presented her with a ring he had found as a child and kept because it reminded him of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books...
...social safety net. (All we're missing is a reality show on which 10 seniors compete to get their pensions restored.) And there are plenty of takers. In the Three Wishes pilot, the townspeople line up in droves to pitch their wishes to producers, like peasants petitioning a medieval lord. "The whole parking lot is filled with people humbling themselves asking for a hand," Grant says. "It's a beautiful thing...
...enough humanity in the exhibition, you come across a monumental, eight-panel ink-and-color screen, Scenes of Yangban Life. Painted in the late 18th century by one of Korea's best-loved artists, Kim Hong-do, it is a marvelous genre work complete with a fat lord being carried on a palanquin, peasants working in fields (one stout woman nonchalantly adjusting the back of her skirt), as well as gentlemen and ladies playing musical instruments, while the smokers, including a woman, stay outside the garden gate...
Since we current post-adolescents were actual adolescents, beginning to think about leaving the nest, we’ve experienced a barrage of epic sagas; first the new “Star Wars” trilogy, then “Lord of the Rings” (LOTR) and “Harry Potter.” We’ve flocked in droves to “Spider-Man” and “X-men.” We live from season to season, from installment to installment, waiting for good to triumph at last...