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...years as an elite footballer, Lote Tuqiri, the Wallabies' granite-hard Fijian-born winger, has collided with players of all colors. The truth, he says, is that they all feel more or less the same. But, he adds, the Maori and Islander player "grows up with the sense that you're bigger than most of the people you play against. That puts a thing in your head that you're a powerful force, and you never quite lose that feeling. And you don't want to. You always want to intimidate with your physicality...
...protective lust for Audrey Hepburn. Neat plotting, chic dialogue, a funny-grotesque supporting cast and enough frissons to send an audience out spooked and happy. They don't make pictures like these anymore. Case in point: Legal Eagles. It ought to work. Robert Redford can give good suave; Debra Winger could be Audrey Hepburn (or Kate) brought down to earth. The plot ransacks honorable sources: bantering, romancing lawyers from Adam's Rib, silky threats at an art auction from North by Northwest, the murderer and his motive from Charade. The movie's Manhattan locations exploit some of the most glamorous...
...listen to a lot of right-wing talk radio (as I do), you can hear the troops being rallied. O.K., so maybe McCain isn't really our type. But he's our nominee. And consider the alternative! Obama is the most radical left-winger since the French Revolution. He is a fanatical leveler who hates rich people and despises success. Plus, he's an élitist snob. And his wife thinks she's better than everyone else because she's black. Truth to tell, the radio guys would rather have had Clinton to rail against, out of habit if nothing...
...There are subtler risks as well. Earlier this year, Republicans seemed to have settled on the view that Obama was a committed left-winger. On social issues, they said, he made John Kerry look like a conservative. Kerry had encouraged states to pass constitutional bans on same-sex marriage. Obama opposes such bans. But Republicans cannot make the case that Obama is a dangerous radical at the same time they claim that he believes in nothing except getting elected...
...internal coup attempt against Brown. "Today was all about the durability of this government," said Jon Cruddas, a popular MP on the left of the Labour party, after casting his vote in favor of the measure. "The debate was a bit of an onion," said another Labour left-winger, Jeremy Corbyn, an opponent of the extension. "There was a serious debate about civil liberties. There was a second debate about Gordon Brown...