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...England supporters, he fears an Australian team hell-bent on revenge. If England show any weakness, Gill says, if they're not absolutely determined to hold on to what they've won, if there's any sense within the squad that the thrill of beating Australia last year will sustain them for the rest of their lives and that it would be greedy to hope to do it twice, "then it could be ugly for them." From the other side of the world, Colin Croft expects to see a thrashing. Galvanized by defeat, he says, "Australia are going to beat...
...people saw this coming. Nobody truly expected Benedict to be a mere caretaker Pope--his sometimes ferocious 24-year tenure as the Vatican's theological enforcer and John Paul's right hand suggested anything but passivity. But this same familiarity argued against surprises. The new Pontiff was expected to sustain John Paul's conservative line on morality and church discipline and focus most of his energies on trimming the Vatican bureaucracy and battling Western culture's "moral relativism." Although acknowledged as a brilliant conservative theologian, Benedict lacked the open-armed charisma of his predecessor. Moreover, what had initially propelled John...
...second at 39:30—en route to a 3-0 defeat at Drake Field on Wednesday and a second-round NCAA tournament exit for Harvard.The athletic and relentless Bruins ran circles around the Crimson defense in the first half, and Harvard was unable to sustain any offensive pressure in the opening frame. A superior second-half effort gave the Crimson several chances on the net in the first 20 minutes. But the Bruins’ two first half goals were enough to keep Harvard from repeating its season-long second-half heroics. “They?...
...With the next election still three years away, the Siniora government is in no danger of losing its majority in parliament. But it will face extra-parliamentary challenges such as demonstrations, strikes and civil strife, according to Moussalli. "The government can sustain itself legally, but its parliamentary majority doesn't represent opinion on the street. [Without a compromise] it's going to collapse...
...brought an offering to help sustain him on his way: chocolate...