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...Test five-eighth and now television personality, to play Newtown coach Jack Cooper. Johns is one of those people who can make you laugh just by standing there. Acting, he doesn't always quell the twinkle in his eye but still convinces as the stressed-out, blood-and-guts mentor whose time, like Grub's, is almost up. Johns also has the film's funniest lines, in one scene telling his players in a half-time rant that two of their supposedly rugged team-mates had been off "giving each other a f___ing sponge bath." By bringing a bygone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Footy for Thought | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

...well since and I think they're starting to worry," said Kearns, who predicts the Cup favorites will be bidding au revoir in the quarter-finals. The Wallabies' Cup-winning coach of '99, Rod Macqueen, questioned whether the Blacks had the versatility to play more than one style. French mentor Bernard Laporte has accused them of playing to the limit of the rules and exploiting weak refereeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back To Blacks | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

...bread served out on the range where he's been drilling on targeted fire. For 18 weeks the recruits learn to march in formation, set up camp, shoot weapons, organize missions and react to ambushes. Staff Sergeant Robert Paul Rosell, a California National Guardsman who works as a mentor to the Afghan battalion led by Waris and Ahmad, says, "The hardest lesson is getting through the idea of 'one target, one shot.' They tend to go blacko on ammo." Other military trainers call it the "spray and pray" school of target practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Aim At the Taliban | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

...tendency to use teenage expressions. (Chatting to colleagues while waiting for a helicopter in Afghanistan, he dismisses a Tory policy as "pants.") Yet a change of style might compromise his disarming ability to disguise his intellectual firepower and connect with people, a rare gift shared with his mentor Tony Blair. Appointed Blair's head of policy in 1994 and an author of the election manifesto that helped sweep Labour to power three years later, Miliband is already a Labour eminence, if not yet a gray one. After winning a parliamentary seat in 2001, he was rapidly promoted by Blair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outward Bound | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...society regulates ideas and information," Law School Dean Elena Kagan said in a statement. "His deep and probing intellect combine with his interdisciplinary focus and range to make him an important appointment not only for Harvard Law School, but for the entire University. He is a marvelous teacher and mentor, and he will bring boundless energy, excitement, and vision to our community. We are very lucky to have...

Author: By Gerald C. Tiu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HLS Nabs Benkler From Yale | 6/22/2007 | See Source »

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