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DIED. SIR DONALD BRADMAN, 92, self-taught cricket player and courtly Australian icon considered by many to be the pre-eminent sportsman of all time; in Adelaide, South Australia. His perch atop batting stats was said to be "as changeless as alphabetic order"; over his 20-year career, he racked up an average of 99.94 runs per innings, 30 runs more than the next best in the game. A recent book comparing the relative statistical achievements in a variety of sports put Bradman ahead of Michael Jordan, Ty Cobb and Pele. One of Australia's most beloved heroes...
...only solid nomination in this category. Not to say it's a perfect movie; while I loved a lot of things about this movie - particularly every scene with Benicio del Toro - there were moments of doubt, like when Michael Douglas' drug czar slipped so easily from his professional perch in order to address (cue very serious voice) the crisis in his own family. Overall, though, a brilliantly conceived epic...
...advocate to a top post in his administration. John J. DiIulio, a public policy scholar - and also, incidentally, a Democrat -was tapped earlier this week to run the administration's office of faith-based programs. Almost all of the articles and TV reports written about DiIulio, who has a perch at both the conservative Manhattan Institute and centrist Brookings Institution, have failed to mention his opposition to the death penalty - something that Bush has applied far more frequently than any politician in recent decades...
BEIJING--Desperate to avoid a forced return to his old perch atop the Lampoon castle, the humor magazine's sacred ibis fled across the Pacific last week, flying through Siberia and North Korea before finally nesting in the snowy Chinese capital...
...prognostication for the Crimson is better at this point in the season than last year. This weekend, Yale and Brown come to Cambridge aiming to topple Harvard from its leafy perch. But they're not facing the same team--they'll see the same Harvard faces as last season, but everything's different. Those green freshmen have become the solid core of the team; Pat Harvey is draining three-pointers and Dan Clemente is healthy...