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...idea that defeat in England didn't say anything too troubling about the strength of Australian cricket is being propagated by virtually everyone associated with the home squad, from Ponting down. In post-mortems, the skipper has avoided the conclusion that England might now have better players than Australia does. Instead, he's argued that Australia simply had a poor series in which their discipline lapsed and their attitude was never quite right ?fixable problems caused by a lack of concentration in practice. As for this series, "While our personnel might be similar," Ponting writes in his just-released Captain...
...take such a role scores of times since 2001, without result. Bush once promised he was "willing to expend the same amount of energy in the Middle East" as Blair has in Northern Ireland, but that was bunkum. First because of Yasser Arafat, now because of Hamas' electoral strength, Bush has been deeply skeptical of dealing with Palestinians. He is less critical of Israel than his predecessors and has not wanted to risk his reputation in the kind of negotiating marathon that ultimately defeated Bill Clinton...
There are other potential negatives. Fares would probably go up on routes where the two airlines now compete. Both need to pull up their socks when it comes to customer service, once a Delta strength and always a US Airways weakness. And integrating the US Airways fleet, which favors European-made Airbus planes, with Delta's all-Boeing operation might be difficult. Also, the combined US Airways--Delta would account for 18% of the market, which competition watchdogs think is too high. But the government, which must approve the merger, gets a vote and presumably could order the merged carrier...
Friedman's masterpieces of essays, such as Capitalism and Freedom, advised Americans not to look to the state for either rights or responsibilities but to look to themselves for their strength, and then made his case with numbers. He took on Marxism and with potent logic proved that it did not work. He was perhaps the most impressive combination of mathematician, economist and caped crusader there has ever been...
...half-empty net. Though five of the seven goals scored on a penalty-filled night came on powerplays—including both of Harvard’s goals—Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 was more concerned about the team’s even-strength play. “We haven’t scored enough even-strength goals for the type of team we want to be,” Donato said. “That’s something that we have to continue to improve on if we want to be a good...