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Rugby as Social Scrum South African rugby continues to be a predominantly white game, from a player and spectator perspective [Sept.24], but more and more blacks are becoming regular club and provincial players, and on a national level they are proudly supported by the white Springbok fans and spectators. No one in the government tells South African football to field some whites, Asians or other nonblacks, so why should rugby be singled out? Richard Spencer-Cheetham, CAPE TOWN
...Blacks aren't without their frailties. Their lineout can let them down and they've been stronger in the centers in the past. While their scrum's good, it's less of a weapon than South Africa's. If it's not to be New Zealand's time, then who else can win? Probably only Australia or the Springboks, with France a possibility on home soil. Rush acknowledges the physical strength of the South Africans but doubts they have the flair to repeat their '95 win. "Their method is to batter you into submission and then score," he says...
...wild scrum for the ball. How did you not die in there...
Several years ago I was strolling through an old neighborhood of Shanghai when I spied a scrum of men carrying something out of a darkened doorway. It was a rattan chair on which sat a very agitated granny. She was one of the last holdouts refusing to leave her house, which was scheduled to be torn down to make way for Xintiandi, Shanghai's sprawling outdoor shopping-and-restaurant development. As she was borne out, like some parody of an imperial courtesan in a eunuch-shouldered sedan chair, the Mao-suited woman kept screaming a phrase in Shanghainese. I asked...
...Florida's gambit is symptomatic of a larger Primary War Between the States that is making the 2008 Presidential nominating process look more like a rugby scrum. New Hampshire law requires that its primary he held at least seven days before any other, and Iowa traditionally holds its caucuses the week before New Hampshire. That's why many are watching New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner, who has the power to set the date and who is legendary for his zeal at guarding the influence of that state's first-in-the-nation primary. While Gardner has tentatively scheduled...