Word: waughs
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...been nothing to match it for duration or the number of exceptional players it's spawned. Over this period greatness (or something close to it) has come in pairs; it has arisen in those apparently untouched and been replicated as if by decree. The country had not one Waugh but two?Steve the hardhead, who carved out cricketing immortality from the granite of his temperament, and Mark the aesthete, whose fluid strokes caused ancients to scour their memory for another who made batting look so easy and so beautiful...
Harvard students who care whether their faux-worn-in blazers have Italian, British, or American-cut shoulders are at the forefront of a trend: Dressing like a character in an Evelyn Waugh novel, a perennial Harvard pastime, is even more popular than ever here in Cambridge. Two august clothing vendors in Harvard Square—J. Press and The Andover Shop—have been supplying finals club members past and present with houndstooth and herringbone for decades. Denis E. Black, manager of J. Press, has worked in the Square for over thirty years and introduced generations of clueless freshmen...
...says. "But I've tried not to build a presidential prime ministership." Conservative politicians marvel at his genius; high-profile figures across the Tasman, in the South Pacific and in Asia speak about Howard's political prowess in the awed tones cricketers might use to describe Steve Waugh...
...different grips. It was the boy's good luck that his talent for cricket matched his love of it. Though the call-up came later, he was probably ready for the big time at 16. After a stumble or two, he became a fine Test player and, on Steve Waugh's retirement in 2004, his country's 41st captain...
...Australian cricket misses him. As the Ashes were surrendered this northern summer, there were many times Australians wished Waugh would bustle to the crease. Did he ever feel like that? "I let go of those feelings the second I finished," he says. "I haven't really thought about playing since I retired. I haven't thought once about my stats or what I achieved." Instead, he's thrown himself into fatherhood, property development, charity work - and writing. A children's book might be next, he says, or a novel. And no, he's not planning a move into the commentary...