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Brad Corrigan, Pete Heimbold and Chad Urmston will reunite after two years apart for one final concert tomorrow afternoon at 5 p.m. at the Hatch Shell in Boston. The performance, open to the public and free of charge, is expected to draw an audience more than 50,000 strong, including listeners from as far away as Australia and New Zealand, according to submissions to the band’s official website...
...deadline is close. Interruptions are briskly dealt with. Expletives are occasionally uttered with quiet vehemence. "Let's get this show on the road," he says loudly. Around him the paper's most senior production editors - a team known as the backbench - are assessing the last few pieces filed for tomorrow's paper by journalists from Cairns, Canberra or a few desks away, "tasting" them for tone and logic before flicking them over to the news sub-editors. Words must be cut, queried, inserted or rearranged. Headlines must sing and sentences gleam. Or as much as is possible before the deadline...
...haste and vast distances mean some copies still cost the company around $A25 each, says Mitchell. That's the price of being a national newspaper. "We don't just want to appeal to Balmain," he says. "We need to appeal to Carnarvon, too." When they open the paper tomorrow, the residents of neither place will sense the skilled flurry that produced it. Words are moving at high speed among the subs now. Stutchbury and Mitchell have left; barring any major changes, it's now the backbench's call. "Whack it through, mate," shouts Dore. Just before second deadline he notices...
...next best thing: a stint with the Melbourne Cricket Club, which manages the game's grandest stage. It's a Friday morning and Josh is bent over in the middle of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, using a paint-dipped broom to embellish one of the 50-m arcs for tomorrow night's Brisbane vs. Collingwood game. The stands are empty, the wind is numbing and this is painstaking work - not normally the boy's forte. But Josh is content. This place thrills him. Bruce Church has nearly 60 years on Josh, but his feelings for the ground are much...
Parents have never lacked for reasons to lie awake at night. They worry endlessly about keeping their kids healthy and safe and fret about such persistent problems as teen drug use, dropout rates, pregnancy and crime. How, they wonder, will their under-18s ever become tomorrow's thirtysomethings...