Word: slow
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...accident that the surge idea began gathering steam among the war's most ardent supporters at exactly the same moment the Baker-Hamilton group proposed, in early December, that the White House start executing a slow but steady withdrawal from Iraq. To the neocons, former Secretary of State James Baker is the archenemy, the epitome of those internationalists who have always been too willing to cut deals with shady players overseas. His commission's 79 recommendations struck the neocons as defeatist--and a condemnation of a war they had thought up in the first place. And so, re-energized...
...Warne retires this week. this may mean nothing to you, but it means a lot to me. Warne is an Australian cricketer, one of the greatest in the history of the game and a revolutionary in his own way. In cricket there are two types of bowlers: fast and slow. The former tend to blast batsmen out with pace, the latter to bamboozle them, spinning the ball off the pitch so as to deceive and induce batsmen into a false shot. In the 1970s and '80s, when I was a kid growing up in Australia, my friends and I idolized...
...From his international debut in 1992, the stocky blond-haired Australian almost single-handedly made spin-bowling fashionable again, reviving the arcane and difficult craft of leg spin-bowling (in which spin is imparted mostly through a snap of the wrist rather than via the fingers) and proving that slow bowlers can be just as aggressive and flamboyant as the fast men. In the years after Warne hit the big time, kids in backyards across the cricketing world stopped trying to fling the ball as fast as they could and began learning the subtler art of spin-bowling. His skill...
...suffered under Saddam would be outraged at the idea of granting him clemency. But beyond the fleeting, visceral satisfaction of giving Saddam the same violent end that he administered to his victims, there's little political upside for the Iraqi government in putting him to death. It will not slow down the pace of Iraq's sectarian slaughter, which is being driven by an array of uncontrollable forces. But it will almost certainly fuel Sunni rage and scuttle Pri me Minister Nouri al-Maliki's program of reconciliation, which may be the last chance to avoid an even bloodier civil...
...there sure are lots of people coming up here to have a look," says a 54-year-old homeless man who identifies himself only as G?rard as he pulls blankets, trash bags of clothes and even a Razor scooter from his tent while tidying up. Passing motorists slow down to gaze upon G?rard and his fellow campers; foreign tourists and vacationing French people stroll by, some taking photos and others stopping to converse with the homeless protestors. "Usually people avoid us - change to the side of the street so we don't cross paths," says G?rard. "So I guess...