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...Aging pro athletes thriving in a young man's game always make for a great spectacle. Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jamie Moyer, 46, is a marvel, throwing about as hard as your average slow-pitch softball stud but still making major league hitters look bad. And what about that Tom Watson, who at 59 inspired the world's elderly population by nearly winning the British Open in July? Then there's also a certain quarterback now playing for the Minnesota Vikings, who turns 40 in October, and still has a chance to age gracefully on the football field...
...final match in April. The goal: have a player simulate an open wound in order to exploit an exemption to substitution rules that allows players who've already left the game to return in place of those too bloodied to continue. In the Harlequins' case, that meant getting winger Tom Williams to secretly bite into a synthetic blood capsule, then sending him off as "injured" just in time to bring a place-kicking specialist back on to take a potentially game-winning penalty kick. (See pictures of the last Rugby World...
...Ridge, Tom •admission by - now that there's a book to sell - that Bush's raising the security alert just before the 2004 election was politically motivated
...DeLay, Tom •fabulous story is told by about how protesters at town hall meetings are nothing new - "This has been going on forever. When I did my town hall meetings, I'll never forget one back in the '80s - on health care, by the way. They brought in quadriplegics on gurneys and dumped them on the floor in front of my podium" - except, sadly, the tale seems not to be, you know, true •giggle-inducing demand by to see Obama's "gift certificate" •terpsichorean talents of are to be televised...
...spend your college years with academics as your only priority. You will become a maestro in schmoozing teaching fellows and professors, you will know exactly what they want to hear in section, and you will argue for those crucial half-points after the midterm like you’re Tom Cruise in “A Few Good...