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Converting the Cup Into Cash It took some last-gasp heroics for England to topple Australia in Saturday's Rugby World Cup final in Sydney; commercial success should now come a little easier. While the players - proud amateurs until the game went professional in 1995 - carve up a €1.9 million bonus, the English game's governing body, the Rugby Football Union, will expect a scrum of sponsors to hail the new champs by loosening their purse strings. The RFU squeezed €15 million out of sponsors this year, topping the €12.9 million it attracted in 2002. After recently...
...last month or so, it’s tremendous to see the way that our kids responded today, especially our senior class,” Murphy said. “It was a very intense, emotional and physical performance and, needless to say, we’re proud of them...
...former secretary of defense admits, “I’m very proud of my accomplishments … [but] I made errors.” However, he goes on to argue that error in war is unavoidable: “We all make mistakes. What ‘the fog of war’ means is that war is so complex that it’s beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend all the variables...
Doing Her Country Proud...
...which are common benign tumors which affect the inner ear,” said HMS Lecompte Professor of Otology and Laryngology Joseph B. Nadol, Jr. “What’s incredible is that he did that again and again in other subspecialities. Any of us would be proud to have made those contributions in one area—it’s a tribute to his ingenuity and devotion to his patients...