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...onward. Beating England won't change the fact that Ponting's most celebrated teammates are in the twilight of their careers. The question is not whether Australia are nearing a fall but how bad it will be. "We won't ever be poor, but we will be normal," says former vice-captain Ian Healy. "We'll have to play really tough cricket to win games and save games." When Australia lose their great bowlers Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne, he adds, "opponents aren't going to be anywhere near as scared of playing Australia as they...
...degrees above normal—defined as the average temperature from 1970 to 2000. “The fall in Cambridge hasn’t been warmer, but it has been longer,” Pachelco said. Average temperatures from mid-September through November have been one degree above normal, said AccuWeather meteorologist John A. Gresiak. He added that the nights this fall have been generally milder, about 2-3 degrees above normal. According to Gresiak, it is unusual that Cambridge has yet to have a night below freezing. Past records indicate that, by late October, there are usually several...
Behind the scenes, Bush mused to aides that he loved what he was seeing and regretted he would never be able to come to a place like this as a normal tourist. Instead he pursued a fairly restricted itinerary, visiting the U.S. military's Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and skipping the Turtle Temple and the stir-fried camel. Asked at a briefing why the President wasn't out more among the people, National Security Adviser Steve Hadley said the motorcade routes through the heart of the city meant that the President was "in the midst of the Vietnamese people...
Joel Stein's story on comedian Sasha Baron Cohen's movie Borat stated that "any normal person over 35 is going to find [Baron Cohen's character] Borat horrifying" [Nov. 6]. I disagree; I'm 37, and although I thought the film was as vulgar and far removed from political correctness as you can get, I was not horrified. It is a brilliant satirical look at global prejudice and without a doubt the funniest movie in years. You don't have to be under or over a certain age to know a sharp work of satire or pure comic genius...
...normal circumstances, Milingo's taste for the spotlight might cause the Vatican to simply ignore him. But the fact that the Pope called the meeting in the first place is telling. The question of specific dispensations and the broader question of celibacy is not a matter of fixed church doctrine, but has long been a tradition in the Latin church, while Eastern rite churches allow married men to become priests. Church insiders say that a small core of progressive Cardinals have been trying to open up discussion of the rules going well back into John Paul's papacy. Some observers...