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...Lankan government's duty "to protect one of our national treasures." And last week, the Sri Lankan cricket board made a formal request to the ICC to change the rules to allow for Muralitharan's confounding pitch. Neither effort is likely to succeed. Meanwhile, Muralitharan has hinted he might pull out of Sri Lanka's tour to Australia next month. No cricket fan wants to see that, and that includes John Howard...
...achieved all that with two qualities: courage and conviction. Conviction led him to initiate economic shock therapy to pull the U.S. out of the stagflation of the 1970s. Courage allowed him not to flinch when his radical economic policies (and those of a merciless Federal Reserve) initially caused the worst recession since the Great Depression--and during a congressional election year (1982) to boot...
...career hasn't prepared her to deliver pop arias. Driver, whose first album, a "super-lo-fi, Cowboy Junkies kind of thing," is due in October, doesn't sing in the film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. "It would have been ridiculously arrogant to believe I could pull it off without a lifetime of training," says the Good Will Hunting star, who appears with Gerard Butler as the Phantom. Besides, the role of Carlotta provides other outlets for Driver's pipes. "I do a lot of babbling and screaming in Italian," she says. "I enjoyed that quite...
...voters remain so deeply divided about what place they want for their country within the European Union that they were expected to hand more than 10% of the parliamentary vote to an anti-E.U. splinter group called the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP). And the UKIP was likely to pull votes from the famously (but more moderately) Euro-skeptical Tories - who stood to lose as many as a third of their M.E.P. seats, bringing Howard's celebration to a quick end. UKIP's brand of fire-breathing Euro- hatred - they want Britain out of the E.U., period - was projected...
...penultimate event thanks to a host of top-eight showings, stood on the cusp of denying the Tigers their fifth straight title. With three divers in the three-meter dive finals—and none for Princeton—Harvard needed a clean first-through-third sweep to pull within two points and make leapfrogging the Tigers in the final relay a realistic possibility...