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...Whether Australia wins or flounders this summer, it may be worth taking a lingering look at this team, to reflect on its star players in the knowledge that it could be decades before Australia again fields a force as potent as the sides of 1995 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...
...corrections unprecedented in the papacy. He expressed regret to those offended, summoned a group of Muslim notables to make the point personally and disowned the "evil and inhuman" slur on Muhammad as Manuel's sentiment but not his own. He even issued a second version of the speech to reflect those sentiments...
...violent responses to the Pope's speech reflect the belief of jihadist groups, such as al-Qaeda, that their religion mandates the use of any means necessary, including suicide bombers and the mass killing of civilians, to bring about the world's submission to Islam. In an Oct. 12 "Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI," 38 distinguished Islamic religious authorities, including Grand Muftis in Turkey, Egypt, Russia, Syria, Kosovo, Bosnia and Uzbekistan, wrote that "jihad ... means struggle, and specifically struggle in the way of God. This struggle may take many forms, including the use of force." The signers...
...want to focus on the game itself, and kind of reflect afterwards,” Tanner says. “But I will say that over the past week or so, the reality has set in. I know this will be the last time I step on a football field and play. And I’ve been playing since I was nine years...
...future applicants meet Harvard students from similar backgrounds. Fitzsimmons spoke at an event moderated by members of Concilio Latino—an umbrella group for students of Latino descent. Nationally, the Hispanic population is growing more quickly than the Caucasian population, and Fitzsimmons said future classes at Harvard should reflect these changing demographics. “If Harvard is going to continue to claim that it’s educating future leaders, it needs to actively recruit Latinos, or Harvard itself is going to become marginalized,” Fitzsimmons said. Latinos comprise 9.8 percent of the Class...