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That path is littered, Chappell claims, with disaffected kids who are "leaving the sport in droves." Playing standards, he adds, are declining at many levels. The knee-jerk retort - What could be wrong with a system that's kept Australian teams at the peak of world cricket since the mid '90s? - is "simplistic," he says: the consequences of what's happening will soon reach the top, and dynasties can crumble. The West Indies were dominant in the '80s, but cricket there is now languishing, as it is to varying degrees and for different reasons in England, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe...
With each retort, virus-coders on all sides release new variants with new social engineering tactics. There are now 21 official variants of Bagle and 17 of Netsky. And in this hackers’ spitting contest there are only millions and millions of losers—Internet users. Netsky, Bagle and Mydoom together have caused over 100 billion dollars of estimated damage to personal and commercial computer systems, according to Internet security firm mi2g. All this havoc, so few grammatical skills...
...fact that the rising cost of health insurance is far more responsible for employers? hesitation to hire new workers. In bad economic times, any presidential challenger has only one real message on the economy: The guy in the White House hasn?t done enough. The incumbent has just one retort: Yes, I have...
...Administration is making the case that the Iraq war scared Libya into submission, a politically handy retort to Democratic charges that the Iraq adventure has been a mistake. Bush's aides have pointedly noted that Gaddafi initiated contact on March 19, as the first salvo of missiles rained down on Baghdad. And as the search for weapons of mass destruction continues to come up virtually empty in Iraq--top U.S. weapons inspector David Kay says he may quit as head of the effort--Bush can at least claim credit for having neutralized one nation's WMD threat...
...Bush initiative is calling for just $200 million per year. The Global Fund needs our support now. But the administration is too busy passing the buck. They won’t contribute more, they say, until the European Union (E.U.). does. The E.U. makes the same retort. How convenient. It will take real leadership to break this deadlock; don’t hold your breath...