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...from their Test careers. Teammate Andrew Symonds, snared at auction by Hyderabad for $1.35 million over three years, has made it clear he'd rather play in the upcoming IPL tournament than tour an unstable Pakistan as part of his national squad. "Right now you'd have to be nervous if you're a cricket administrator," Symonds warned in his Brisbane newspaper column. "The bottom line is the money on offer in India is not going away and may even get more and more tempting...
...pressure, he thrives on that,” Weiss commented. “I don’t think he’s nervous...
...tone and pace suitable to an octogenarian's temper. A few little surprises - Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose for Best Actress, Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton for Supporting Actress - but no big ones that might have sent a murmur through the golden olden dude's nervous system. No Country for Old Men took its four expected awards: Picture, Director (for Joel and Ethan Coen), Adapted Screenplay (the brothers Coen again) and Sepulchral Menace (Javier Bardem). Daniel Day-Lewis, of There Will Be Blood, was a cinch for for Best Throbbing Forehead Blood Vessel. Nor was it a shock...
...Citibank (which eliminated its universal default clause in 2007) show a new willingness to curb some of the more controversial practices. "They are kowtowing to political pressure," says Frank Braden, an equity analyst at Standard & Poors. Adds Levin, "They take it very seriously. I think they are very nervous...
...Interpol," he says. "We went 24/7 that day." Noble immediately instituted round-the-clock monitoring of news and e-mails from a command and coordination center two floors below his office - a sharp break from Interpol's previous working hours. That room is now the center of Interpol's nervous system: rotating teams, which include Arabic and African staff, field calls for help and keep in daily contact with Interpol's multiple field offices. One of the room's monitors is tuned continuously to Al Jazeera...