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Under the glittering chandeliers of the Wentworth Hotel on Saturday night, even before the uniformed police with sniffer dogs have been replaced by waiters with trays of tempura prawns and chilled champagne, the familiar thrill of success begins wafting through the room. As the crowd of sedate scions in evening wear and young women in strappy party dresses watch the televised count point to a stunning Coalition win, supporters like Ashley Cordner don't need the final results to happily declare John Howard a better Prime Minister than the party's grandsire, Sir Robert Menzies. "I think history will...
...your name on it." He followed that book's success with The Road to McCarthy, in which he pursued the Irish diaspora around the world. McCarthy wrote in 2001 of his "childlike pleasure" in seeing his books on shop shelves with those of writers he admired - and of the "thrill" of "moving McCarthy's Bar in front of Bill Bryson before anyone catches you." DIED. JACQUES DERRIDA, 74, French philosopher and intellectual demigod; in Paris. Born into a Jewish family in Algeria, he earned his reputation in the 1960s and '70s with a series of philosophical works that combined daunting...
...perfect medium for the constantly metamorphosing creatures that inhabit them, from yawkyawk mermaid spirits to the rainbow serpent, Ngalyod. Indeed, so warped is the bark of James Iyuna's 2002 serpent that it threatens to lift off the wall. But what is a nightmare for conservators is a thrill for spectators...
With the move to Cambridge, though, the thrill of Friday night gave way to the uncertainty of Saturday, as Tracy spent his first three years with the Crimson watching from the sidelines and waiting for his chance. Now, after abiding in relative obscurity as a reserve safety, the senior is proving that he can energize those Saturday afternoon crowds as well...
...shed after dark are all powerfully unsettling. The inability to determine the loyalties of men standing on barren hillsides with rifles is eerily evocative of the American predicament in Vietnam. Watching the crew careen through Kabul amid real machine gun fire at least equals, and perhaps eclipses, the thrill of elaborately staged action...