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...British Commonwealth, the 50s was a decade of great achievers: Sir Edmund Hillary, Roger Bannister, the Goons. The weekly radio show starring Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers defined silly comedy for postwar England, influenced the Beatles and Monty Python, and made me laugh when I listened to the shows on CD last year for a column on Sellers. Puns, outlandish narrative detours and other foolery are wildly evident in Milligan?s scripts. In the ?Ill Met by Goonlight? episode, the Goons land on Crete. Sellers: ?Ooh, this beach is hard.? Secombe: ?Then we must be on con-Crete...
...Nearly a year later, his worst fear may be coming true. If a virus, as Nobel laureate Peter Medawar described it, "is a piece of bad news wrapped in a protein," the past few weeks have had all the bad news the world can handle as avian influenza has broken out in Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam. Already, the disease appears to have jumped the species barrier, killing at least four people, and the virus is suspected of causing another 10 deaths. Asia has stared down avian-flu outbreaks before, notably in Hong Kong in 1997 when the city...
...suspects weariness and injuries were what hurt the Australian, along with a playing style that became too conservative - a flaw Hewitt seems to have corrected. "People tend to talk about power - about serving and forehands - and they're the fashionable things to talk about," says Hewitt's childhood coach, Peter Smith. "I always felt that Lleyton had qualities that others didn't notice, subtle qualities they couldn't measure. For a start he's a strategic genius: from the time he was a little kid he's had an incredible ability to work out other players' weaknesses...
...Peter F. Lake ’81, a professor of law at Stetson University in Florida who has published a book on university legal obligations, says that nudging students off campus is one way universities currently deal with the burgeoning mental health “crisis” on campuses...
...this responsibility has been placed in the hands of an untested first-year coach, Peter Nowak, a former Polish national team, German Bundesliga and MLS standout. Nowak replaces Ray Hudson—who suffered through two consecutive losing seasons—in an attempt to rejuvenate a club that won three of the first four MLS titles, but has only been to the playoffs once since...