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...toughest men to wear the New Zealand rugby league jersey. Williams, who's part Samoan, started playing at the age of eight for Auckland's Mt. Albert club and was soon turning heads with precocious displays of power and skill. He was in primary school when spotted by a scout working for the Australian National Rugby League club Canterbury, which brought him over to Sydney's southwest when he was 15. Three years later, Williams was an NRL star and New Zealand's youngest-ever Test footballer. One of the game's most astute observers, Phil Gould, called...
...deluge that swamped Iowa and much of the Upper Midwest was supposed to be a 500-year flood. Fifteen years later, Iowans are rethinking that judgment. In a spring of calamitous weather, the state's can-do stoicism was tested by two tornadoes; one tore through a Boy Scout camp and killed four teenagers. Rains then swelled the rivers and strained the levees, which burst indiscriminately. Iowa's second largest city, Cedar Rapids (pop. 124,000), and one of its smallest towns, Chelsea (pop. 276), were inundated. On Friday the 13th, downtown Des Moines was under voluntary evacuation. The surge...
...Having been out on the campaign trail with Tim many times over the years, I often found myself watching him as much as the candidates. Seeing him in the crowd in New Hampshire was like watching a baseball scout at a minor league game; you could follow his eyes to the talent, and immediately you knew who would cut it in the big leagues...
Coming so soon after the May 25 tornado in the northeastern Iowa town of Parkersburg that killed seven people and injured about 50, the June 11 tornado in western Iowa at the Boy Scout camp made me want to shake my fists at the heavens. But there's no time for fury. There's work to be done...
...days, the American Midwest has endured bands of slow-moving thunderstorms that have unleashed massive tornadoes and caused dams to fail. At least four people were killed as a tornado tore through a Boy Scout camp in the remote hills of western Iowa Wednesday. An entire Wisconsin lake has emptied. Carp are swimming through suburban Milwaukee streets. An Iowa farmer has drowned in his own field. And the havoc is expected to continue, with more bizarre weather and even an alert about a mini-tsunami on Lake Michigan in Chicago. What next? Twisters down Michigan Avenue? Don't scoff...