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...still largely an amateur sport. But in its traditional bastions of England, France, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa it has, since turning professional in 1995, become a multi-billion-dollar industry. So the fifth World Cup, which kicks off in Sydney on Oct. 10 ,will be a big tent that welcomes rugby's developed and developing nations alike - and that applies to the fans as much as the players. Just how big that tent is may come as a surprise to those who don't know a fly-half from a loose head prop. All sorts of figures...
According to Metivier, a writer who went hiking in the mountains of Tunisia was followed by a man and then attacked in her tent. She used what she learned in RAD to defend herself and then fled two miles...
...these referenda had no real cost against you for saying no," says John Palmer, political director of the European Policy Centre in Brussels. "This round over the constitution will be different: it's put up or shut up." The advocates of integration better make sure they have a big tent...
...Feet Under, they still couldn't air on network TV: their morality is too vague, their characters are too complex. Clean up Carnivale, and you'd have something not unlike ABC's spooky Miracles from last season. Carnivale's myth and Manichaeism may lure viewers inside the tent, but weirdness is merely a dime-store novelty. Capturing the ambiguities of life and of people is still the most elusive magic...
...specter of that conflict rose again in the questions audience members, growing combative at times, posed after the speech. After a brief pause in which no one approached the microphone at the back of the tent, participants asked Summers about topics including socioeconomic inequalities in Harvard’s undergraduate population and whether he would vigorously support affirmative action...