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...remembered. He is recognized as the finest coach in the history of rugby league in Australia. Winner of five premierships between 1974 and 1983, he was last month named Coach of the Century by a panel of experts that chose a greatest-ever Australian team to mark rugby league's centenary year. Said Wayne Bennett, the closest thing to a Gibson successor: "So much of everything a coach has today is because...
...works. Reminiscent of Pee-wee's Playhouse, the Emmy-nominated show draws an audience of more than 700,000 viewers per week. And its absurd sense of humor and witty guest appearances by rockers like the Shins and artists like Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh make it fun for parents too. "So many shows are based on research. Well, I'm not an expert--I'm just a parent," Jacobs says. Of course, if there's a better kind of expert than that, it's hard to think...
That book was The Americans (Steidl; 180 pages). To mark its 50th anniversary, it's being reissued this month. And Frank's masterpiece is reappearing at the same time as another almost literally groundbreaking photo book. The New West (Aperture; 120 pages), which first came out in 1974, was Robert Adams' bid to document the world of Ansel Adams--no relation--being devoured by the forces of environmental degradation and suburban sprawl. Both these books changed what it was possible to show. More than that, they changed what it was possible...
...incompetent handling of the killer cyclone earlier this month, Beijing will want to demonstrate that it has "the capability and readiness to handle an emergency like this," says Huang Jing, a China scholar at the National University of Singapore. Swift and transparent handling of the tragedy would also mark another step in Beijing's evolution from an unfeeling regime that suppressed bad news--as it tried to do with the SARS outbreak in 2003--to one more responsive to the needs of its people...
Harris said the new system will allow freshmen to use Gen Ed courses to explore possible fields of study. This would mark a change from the Core, where freshmen often take Core classes furthest from their possible concentrations, he added...