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...vacuum cleaner in reverse. Hunched behind the steering wheel, Leonardo DiCaprio wrestles the vehicle while Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou grip the rear seat as if their lives depended on it, which, in this scene of director Edward Zwick's film, they do. "Faster!" shouts Zwick. "We need more speed." DiCaprio nods and backs up, and the bucking drive begins again...
...with Brett Lee poised to join Warne, McGrath, Craig McDermott and Jason Gillespie on the list. At times, fans have been too spoiled to appreciate how good they've had it. Most Australians would choose Dennis Lillee/Jeff Thomson as the country's best postwar pace pairing. And for speed, menace and charisma, they were. But in tandem, Lillee and Thomson took 148 wickets; McGrath and Gillespie have 376. As the highest wicket-taker in Test history, Warne's clippings would fill a small library. But the man condemned by fate to be his understudy, Stuart MacGill, has the better strike...
...took over the game, running off a 26-6 scoring streak that effectively ended the contest before halftime.“We just had trouble getting into our offense,” Harris said. “We’re not [used to] facing teams with their size, speed and athleticism. They were denying the entry passes to the wing, which was pretty much basic to our offense.”At one point during Michigan’s extended rally, Harvard went 6:29 without scoring a point. The Crimson shot just 6-of-27 in the first...
Nobody is claiming that the CDC has become another governmental basket case like FEMA--at least not yet. Indeed, the speed with which this past summer's outbreak of lethal food poisoning was traced to spinach tainted by runoff from a particular herd of cows in California is testimony to the CDC's continuing expertise. But the bad publicity comes at the worst possible time for the agency and its director. Congress is wrapping up its final budget for 2007, and the Administration is starting to draw up a preliminary budget for 2008. If lawmakers believe that Gerberding is floundering...
...This was just a great defensive performance," Yale coach Jack Siedlecki said. "This is the best offense in the league, [with] a lot of great players, skill players with a lot of speed...