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...Australian Test wicket-takers of all time, four have played in the period since the Caribbean triumph of 1995, with Brett Lee poised to join Warne, McGrath, Craig McDermott and Jason Gillespie on the list. At times, fans have been too spoiled to appreciate how good they've had it. Most Australians would choose Dennis Lillee/Jeff Thomson as the country's best postwar pace pairing. And for speed, menace and charisma, they were. But in tandem, Lillee and Thomson took 148 wickets; McGrath and Gillespie have 376. As the highest wicket-taker in Test history, Warne's clippings would fill...
...Over time, the rich cultural heritage of Iranian civilization will triumph over this dark ideology that they have adopted for the short term," he said...
Fifteen years ago, in the flush of his Gulf War triumph, President George H.W. Bush crowed to state legislators, "By God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all." But now, as Washington's wise men look for a way out of a situation in Iraq , the symptoms of that malady seem to be reappearing. Asked in the Rose Garden in June if he saw a parallel between Iraq and Vietnam, the President replied curtly, "No." But he is now embracing the inevitable, and he answered yes last week when asked roughly the same question at the Sheraton...
...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team gave returning alumni something to cheer about on Friday night at Blodgett pool, as the team swam to a 171-127 triumph over the visiting Columbia Lions. The victory marked a strong rebound from a disappointing loss to Cornell last weekend, and was particularly sweet for a team that incurred its first loss in two years against Columbia in 2005. “It’s always nice to beat a team that dismantled you in years past,” co-captain Jason Degnan-Rojeski said...
...midst of a Democratic wave, the netroots candidates failed to sweep, causing some pundits to claim that the netroots' influence continues to be overstated: "The Netroots Election? Not So Fast," editorialized The Nation. When Rick Perlstein tried, in The New Republic, to claim the election as a netroots triumph, Ryan Lizza replied in the magazine's blog that in addition to having the netroots' support, winning candidates also had the national Democratic party to thank, as it "dumped tons of money, strategic advice, and fundraising assistance into their races." What's the real takeaway? Of the 19 candidates that three...