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...Academy Awards--and there are millions of us, filling out our office-pool Oscar ballots, summoning our expertise on movies most of us haven't seen--are like weather forecasters without radar. We put on a bright face, stick our fingers in the wind and trust in dumb luck...
...implication is that Howard, a striver par excellence, is there by merit. But it's also by cunning, luck and perseverance. And the wonders of incumbency, the best political steroid ever. Howard rules (much better than) O.K.! Among many good ones, the P.M. is the Liberal party's best strategist. More important, he is the government's most effective communicator in today's supercharged news cycle. Usually with minimal success, Parliament House's hired political hands try to craft lines that will reach ordinary people about the government's actions and inactions; Howard has the advantage of an open invitation...
...learn about batting, he once told me on a drive through his home city of Launceston. Just sorting through their gear was exciting: he loved the tools of the game, couldn't get enough of brands and bat weights and different grips. It was the boy's good luck that his talent for cricket matched his love of it. Though the call-up came later, he was probably ready for the big time at 16. After a stumble or two, he became a fine Test player and, on Steve Waugh's retirement in 2004, his country's 41st captain...
...Good luck, fella! Shaping the present seems hard enough for the Bush Administration. The abrupt Republican skedaddle away from Bush on the Dubai ports issue was a vivid demonstration of the populist fever rising in America-a make-the-world-go-away attitude that seems likely to spill over from Dubai to the war in Iraq. The best rationale for a continuing U.S. military presence-that the troops are preventing a civil war-began to evaporate with the internecine chaos last week. Indeed, the Dubai controversy may have opened the door for the ultimate apostasy: Bush could rapidly lose Republican...
...over the glove of Raider goalie Brook Wheeler for the second Harvard goal of the night. “We were moving our feet all over the ice,” Raimondi said. “We were playing hustle, Harvard hockey. When you work hard, you get some luck.” “We had great chances today,” Stone added. “We had a lot of great chances. We took a lot of shots on net that were good, quality shots.”From that point on, the game was never...