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  1. I have to admit that I thought after Australia’s innings that New Zealand were all over this and would at least make Australia fight to the very last ball. But it’s very hard to beat a team with this much confidence and belief in themselves and Australia will be very happy they pulled that victory off. It’s been a sensational series, especially considering the team came straight out of 14 days quarantine to play the first T20 game. The WBBL season in the bubble would have served them well to prepare for this challenging circumstances and they weren’t prepared to use it as an excuse. Instead they stood up and fought in their usual style and well and truly reaped the rewards.
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  2. "So, what do you think?" he asked nervously. He wanted to know the answer, but at the same time, he didn't. He'd put his heart and soul into the project and he wasn't sure he'd be able to recover if they didn't like what he produced. The silence from the others in the room seemed to last a lifetime even though it had only been a moment since he asked the question. "So, what do you think?" he asked again.
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  3. The headphones were on. They had been utilized on purpose. She could hear her mom yelling in the background, but couldn't make out exactly what the yelling was about. That was exactly why she had put them on. She knew her mom would enter her room at any minute, and she could pretend that she hadn't heard any of the previous yelling.
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  4. Her silver medal offers reward and motivation. Brown came relatively late to the sport, picking up a bike for the first time in 2015 (she was previously a runner, but endured repeated injuries). She has progressed rapidly ever since, claiming her breakthrough domestic victory within 18 months and signing a professional contract ahead of the 2019 season. Having only been in the World Tour peloton for four years, Brown knows she has more growth to come.
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  5. "It's never good to give them details," Janice told her sister. "Always be a little vague and keep them guessing." Her sister listened intently and nodded in agreement. She didn't fully understand what her sister was saying but that didn't matter. She loved her so much that she would have agreed to whatever came out of her mouth.
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  6. What were the chances? It would have to be a lot more than 100 to 1. It was likely even more than 1,000 to 1. The more he thought about it, the odds of it happening had to be more than 10,000 to 1 and even 100,000 to 1. People often threw around the chances of something happening as being 1,000,000 to 1 as an exaggeration of an unlikely event, but he could see that they may actually be accurate in this situation. Whatever the odds of it happening, he knew they were big. What he didn't know was whether this happening was lucky or unlucky.
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  7. Ron Borges, then a 23-year-old in his first season on the Raiders beat for the Sacramento Union, now says, “We were 25 years and a worldview apart, but I had a lot of respect for his toughness and the fact that there was no situation in a football game that flustered him. If he knew what pressure was, he never let on. He was a tough guy who could be irascible at times, but he was also clutch, honest and straightforward.”
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  8. The former Coalition government tried to deport the asylum seekers to Sri Lanka, but an 11th-hour court injunction saw the four held at the Christmas Island detention centre for two years, then moved to community detention in Perth.
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  9. The World Test Championship final in June will feature two teams who qualify based on their win-draw-loss percentage in their relevant matches. New Zealand have secured their place in the final, with the remaining place being between Australia and India. India will pip Australia to the spot by beating or drawing with England in the final match of their ongoing series, currently led by India 2-1. So Australia need England to win instead; one half of the Ashes rivalry relying on the other.
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  10. She looked at her student wondering if she could ever get through. "You need to learn to think for yourself," she wanted to tell him. "Your friends are holding you back and bringing you down." But she didn't because she knew his friends were all that he had and even if that meant a life of misery, he would never give them up.
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  11. They needed to find a place to eat. The kids were beginning to get grumpy in the back seat and if they didn't find them food soon, it was just a matter of time before they were faced with a complete meltdown. Even knowing this, the solution wasn't easy. Everyone in the car had a different opinion on where the best place to eat would be with nobody agreeing with the suggestions of the others. It seemed to be an impossible no-win situation where not everyone would be happy no matter where they decided to eat which in itself would lead to a meltdown. Yet a decision needed to be made and it needed to be made quickly.
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  12. They beat United Arab Emirates 2-1 in Asia’s World Cup playoff on Tuesday at the same stadium, and Jordan in a friendly by the same score at another Doha stadium last week. They also won both their “home” World Cup qualifiers in the Qatari capital last year while Australia’s borders were effectively shut due to Covid-19.
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  13. It is explained very slowly to him: on Twitter (“A high-profile social media platform for Nazis, sir. The studio were very keen you sign up for it. Simon Pegg’s on there”), Justin Bieber (“A hyper-popular slow-motion breakdown in the body of a child-turned-superstar, sir”) has challenged Tom Cruise to an MMA fight (“A sort of legitimised prison scrap, my liege. You cannot scoop an eyeball, but that’s about it”). Three rounds, five minutes, slim-to-no rules. You cannot wear a shirt. You cannot fish-hook a mouth. You punch Justin Bieber until they have to flash a torch in his eyes.
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  14. The structure of the World Cup draw is such that the top-two teams in one group are drawn randomly against the bottom two from the other, meaning the first and second-placed teams could meet either the third or fourth-placed team from the opposite side of the draw. The world champion also questioned Niemann’s stellar rise over the past year calling it “unusual”, and admitted he was also suspicious of the 19-year-old American’s mannerisms when he lost to him with the black pieces at the Sinquefield Cup early this month.
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  15. There had to be a better way. That's all Nancy could think as she sat at her desk staring at her computer screen. She'd already spent five years of her life in this little cubicle staring at her computer doing "work" that didn't seem to matter to anyone including her own boss. There had to be more to her life than this and there had to be a better way to make a living. That's what she was thinking when the earthquake struck.
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  16. “His over-the-board progress has been unusual, and throughout our game in the Sinquefield Cup I had the impression that he wasn’t tense or even fully concentrating on the game in critical positions, while outplaying me as black in a way I only think a handful of players can do. This game contributed to changing my perspective.”
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  17. Then there is Ellyse Perry who, since a move up the batting order in 2013, has notched 28 scores over 50 from her 53 innings, averaging 74. That was before this match, in which she tallied a 29th. She is also one wicket away from 153, the third-most for any player in this format. Jess Jonassen is rocketing up that list with 109, giving away 20 runs per wicket and fewer than four runs per over with her left-arm spin. Swing opener Megan Schutt is four wickets away from triple figures for herself.
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  18. She closed her eyes and then opened them again. What she was seeing just didn't make sense. She shook her head seeing if that would help. It didn't. Although it seemed beyond reality, there was no denying she was witnessing a large formation of alien spaceships filling the sky.
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  19. She nervously peered over the edge. She understood in her mind that the view was supposed to be beautiful, but all she felt was fear. There had always been something about heights that disturbed her, and now she could feel the full force of this unease. She reluctantly crept a little closer with the encouragement of her friends as the fear continued to build. She couldn't help but feel that something horrible was about to happen.
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  20. Their catching also resumed normal service after last week’s uptick, four chances going down and Joe Root’s drop off Daryl Mitchell, three runs into an unbeaten 81, the most costly. As tends to be the case when these sides meet on a cricket field, the entertainment levels were high and sliding doors moments plentiful.
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  21. Earlier it was New Zealand’s bowling the held the score to something achievable. Australia did give away two wickets to Sodhi’s full tosses, but there was also some excellent bowling from Boult and Southee especially to make sure that Australia’s potential run-scorers didn’t turn their medium scores into big ones. Finch made 36, Wade 44, Stoinis 26, and all got out before they could blow up.
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  22. My pincher collar is snapped on. Then comes the electric zapper collar. Finally, my purple at-home collar is taken off and I know I’m going for a walk to the dog park. I’m so excited to see my friends. I hope Spike or Thunder are there already. They're the most fun to chase and tumble with. My human is pretty strict with me. I’m only allowed on the grass and not on the sidewalks. I think she’s afraid I’m going to jump on the other humans. I don’t understand why everyone else gets to jump on the benches and run wild on the sidewalks. They don’t listen to their humans. I know I could ignore mine but if I do she may zap me and it’s just not worth it. She probably wouldn’t let me back at the dog park if I didn’t listen to her. I just love the dog park.
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  23. In July 2019 they got three Ashes ODIs in England, then a reasonable run with a West Indies trip in September and a home series against Sri Lanka in October. That was when a focus on the upcoming T20 World Cup ran headlong into 2020’s global lockdown, and a full year passed between 50-over engagements. New Zealand has been the only opponent since, with three matches last October and now the series under way in March and April.
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  24. Frank knew there was a correct time and place to reveal his secret and this wasn't it. The issue was that the secret might be revealed despite his best attempt to keep it from coming out. At this point, it was out of his control and completely dependant on those around him who also knew the secret. They wouldn't purposely reveal it, or at least he believed that, but they could easily inadvertently expose it. It was going to be a long hour as he nervously eyed everyone around the table hoping they would keep their mouths shut.
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  25. It was always the Monday mornings. It never seemed to happen on Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning, or any other morning during the week. But it happened every Monday morning like clockwork. He mentally prepared himself to once again deal with what was about to happen, but this time he also placed a knife in his pocket just in case.
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  26. It means that the streak for the women’s team is of an entirely different character. It has involved winning through five overseas tours, and maintaining the quality over the course of an Olympiad. It has involved a substantially different team over that period of time. Australia’s last loss featured batting mainstays who are now part of the team’s distant past: Alex Blackwell, Nicole Bolton, Elyse Villani. The years since have seen a new generation of players rise through the Big Bash League 20-over competition at home, then into national colours.
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  27. Twenty-five hours had passed since the incident. It seemed to be a lot longer than that. That twenty-five hours seemed more like a week in her mind. The fact that she still was having trouble comprehending exactly what took place wasn't helping the matter. She thought if she could just get a little rest the entire incident might make a little more sense.
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  28. It had been a rough day. Things hadn't gone as planned and that meant Hannah got yelled at by her boss. It didn't even matter that it wasn't her fault. When things went wrong at work, Hannah got the blame no matter the actual circumstances. It wasn't fair, but there was little she could do without risking her job, and she wasn't in a position to do that with the plans she had.
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  29. It is believed Carlsen chose to make a single move rather than none at all so as to technically fulfil his contract with the organisers. If one or both players fails to make a move, the game counts as a default and not as a completed game.
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  30. It's not his fault. I know you're going to want to, but you can't blame him. He really has no idea how it happened. I kept trying to come up with excuses I could say to mom that would keep her calm when she found out what happened, but the more I tried, the more I could see none of them would work. He was going to get her wrath and there was nothing I could say to prevent it.
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  31. There were little things that she simply could not stand. The sound of someone tapping their nails on the table. A person chewing with their mouth open. Another human imposing themselves into her space. She couldn't stand any of these things, but none of them compared to the number one thing she couldn't stand which topped all of them combined.
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  32. “We know that despite the fact there may be tough periods throughout the innings you can generally catch up. We just wanted to try and absorb a bit of pressure early. It wasn’t going to be any easier for someone else coming. But it was nice, we had wickets in hand at the back end of our innings which perhaps we didn’t quite cash in on ... but we got some good partnerships back to back.”
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  33. Riley Meredith will get some love for that double-wicket over, but he also went at ten runs per over today. Adam Zampa got a mauling, Jhye Richardson was tidy with 1 for 19 from three overs but was bowling when they didn’t need to go after him with the win in sight. Agar’s four overs conceding 26 runs was a decent return to end an excellent series, but otherwise NZ got right on top of Australia’s bowling today.
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  34. There had to be a better way. That's all Nancy could think as she sat at her desk staring at her computer screen. She'd already spent five years of her life in this little cubicle staring at her computer doing "work" that didn't seem to matter to anyone including her own boss. There had to be more to her life than this and there had to be a better way to make a living. That's what she was thinking when the earthquake struck.
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  35. Debbie had taken George for granted for more than fifteen years now. He wasn't sure what exactly had made him choose this time and place to address the issue, but he decided that now was the time. He looked straight into her eyes and just as she was about to speak, turned away and walked out the door.
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  36. Has she discovered some festive spirit? Well, she enjoyed her party, and she is reminded of Dickens’s “message of hope and redemption, and above all, to be kind.” Not that it appears she’s wholeheartedly taken this on. She remembered those childhood Christmas lunches her mother invited lonely people to, who Margolyes describes as “boring” and “sort of lame ducks.” For true Christmas spirit, maybe she should have looked closer to home.
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  37. The time had come for Nancy to say goodbye. She had been dreading this moment for a good six months, and it had finally arrived despite her best efforts to forestall it. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't keep the inevitable from happening. So the time had come for a normal person to say goodbye and move on. It was at this moment that Nancy decided not to be a normal person. After all the time and effort she had expended, she couldn't bring herself to do it.
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  38. After hunting for several hours, we finally saw a large seal sunning itself on a flat rock. I took one of the wooden clubs while Larry took the longer one. We slowly snuck up behind the seal until we were close enough to club it over its head. The seal slumped over and died. This seal would help us survive. We could eat the meat and fat. The fat could be burned in a shell for light and the fur could be used to make a blanket. We declared our first day of hunting a great success.
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  39. Albanese wouldn’t say publicly exactly what mechanism he would use. Labor sources had previously suggested the ministerial direction could be tweaked to ensure decisions better take into account the length of time a person has been in Australia and the historic special immigration status of New Zealand citizens. That seems to overlap neatly with Ardern’s request for Albanese to “take greater account of potential deportees’ links to New Zealand” and look at its model of not deporting individuals who had lived in the country for 10 years or more.
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  40. Founded in 1979 by William Christie, Les Arts Florissants is one of the best-known baroque-music ensembles in the world. Established in the name of creativity, pleasure and sharing, the Ensemble — which takes its name from a short opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier — has played a pioneering role in the revival of a repertoire that had been largely forgotten and which is now enjoyed across the globe in all the most prestigious concert houses. This pioneering spirit has never died, and Les Arts Florissants’ two artistic directors, William Christie and Paul Agnew, continue the Ensemble’s tradition of research and innovation today.
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  41. Amy Satterthwaite is the stand-in captain. “I felt a bit rusty to begin with, you’re having to think all the time. I spoke about it before the game, said that if everyone executed their role then we’d be in a good position, and everybody did that. We fielded outstanding, all the bowlers did their job. I said before batting that I wanted us to try to get ahead of the rate, and that didn’t happen. But the way that Frankie Mackay stuck in and got us ahead there was important. Opening the batting and opening the bowling, it was a big day for her, but she was brilliant. Stepped up to the challenge and took it with both hands. I’ll take a French cut any day of the week. We’ve lost a game to Australia in that fashion, so we’ll take a win.”
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  42. Those hardened pros are still an important presence, though. For all of Australia’s recent dominance in T20 Internationals, it is the 50-over format where the team’s very best players really stamp their dominance. Meg Lanning, entering the most recent match with 14 centuries from 82 matches. When she broke that record it belonged to Charlotte Edwards, with nine from 191.
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  43. One can cook on and with an open fire. These are some of the ways to cook with fire outside. Cooking meat using a spit is a great way to evenly cook meat. In order to keep meat from burning, it's best to slowly rotate it. Hot stones can be used to toast bread. Coals are hot and can bring things to a boil quickly. If one is very adventurous, one can make a hole in the ground, fill it with coals and place foil-covered meat, veggies, and potatoes into the coals, and cover all of it with dirt. In a short period of time, the food will be baked. Campfire cooking can be done in many ways.
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  44. Ravacley is known as the “humanist baker of Besançon”. He became famous last year for going on hunger strike in defence of his Guinean bakery apprentice, Laye Fodé Traoré, an orphan who had arrived in France as an unaccompanied minor aged 16, but faced deportation when he turned 18. Ravacley’s protest tapped into national concern for unaccompanied minor migrants. Stars including the actors Omar Sy and Marion Cotillard signed an open letter to Macron on his behalf. Still, it took 11 days of hunger strike and Ravacley’s sudden hospitalisation for the authorities to make contact and begin processing Traoré’s paperwork, allowing him to stay.
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  45. “In these conditions you have to be as aggressive as possible. The boys up the top create some pressure to help us in the middle. The last game it turned a little bit, held up, but I think it was a better surface today. The batsmen adapted brilliantly to chase that score down. Chapman and Phillips work really hard in the nets, and for Chapman to pick up that big wicket of Glenn Maxwell for us was brilliant.”
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  46. There was something special about this little creature. Donna couldn't quite pinpoint what it was, but she knew with all her heart that it was true. It wasn't a matter of if she was going to try and save it, but a matter of how she was going to save it. She went back to the car to get a blanket and when she returned the creature was gone.
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  47. “I know that he enjoys music and so I shared with him a few [records] from the Flying Nun label in New Zealand, Aldous Harding, The Clean,” Ardern said in a cheerful appearance on Australian breakfast television on Friday. “And in exchange, I got Powderfinger, Spiderbait and Midnight Oil.”
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  48. These players have been the core through that winning period. But they have not had the luxury of getting on a roll with the same group. They have had to build on the run, initiating new players and raising them to the required standard while on the move. And of course, like a lot of jobs, there has been a lot less time on the move than there has been standing still. Change has to come in that respect – these players are too good to spend their careers waiting.
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  49. “You don’t defend your country and our national security with a media release – you defend it with operational capability,” he said. “My government intends to concentrate on delivering rather than the statements that Peter Dutton has made that contradict all of the statements that he made while he was defence minister.”
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  50. It was supposed to be a dream vacation. They had planned it over a year in advance so that it would be perfect in every way. It had been what they had been looking forward to through all the turmoil and negativity around them. It had been the light at the end of both their tunnels. Now that the dream vacation was only a week away, the virus had stopped all air travel.
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  51. “A lot of the lads who are here today were part of that, so we need to bring that to the players who weren’t there,” said Germany-based Irvine. “Every bit of the past experience can help us grow and contribute to what we’re going to be doing next week as well.”
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  52. New Zealand had their chances. Battled with the bat early and through the middle of the innings, with only Amy Satterthwaite keeping them afloat with her 40 from 31 balls. Maddy Green and Brooke Halliday pushed their total up in the last couple of overs. And they were in the game after knocking over three batters early, and then Lanning with the score at 62, less than halfway to the target. But in a matter of millimetres they couldn’t take two chances to dismiss Gardner, and to put Australia’s lower-middle order under pressure.
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  53. In an election described by pollsters as lacklustre and dull, Ravacley has become a high-profile figure. During last month’s Cannes film festival, the Dardenne brothers directing-duo, whose latest film is about young migrants in Belgium, dedicated their film to Ravacley. They called his hunger strike a “great act of resistance in our era”.
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  54. Graham Arnold’s team returned to training at Doha’s Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium on Thursday, but injured defender Trent Sainsbury (knee) did not participate in the session. Adam Taggart (thigh) did light duties as Australia got to use the official World Cup ball, called the Al Rihla, for the first time.
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  55. The first half was astonishingly beautiful. The Antiennes, heralding the coming of Christ in music of great devotional fervour, were exquisitely sung, with everything wonderfully controlled and shaded, and a beautiful evenness of line from tenors and basses. The fourth antiphon O Clavis David, in which Charpentier adds women’s voices into the mix for the first time and opens up the continuo accompaniment to embrace the strings, suggesting a new world of infinite possibilities, had a breathtaking immediacy. The Noëls, meanwhile, played with wonderful sensuousness of tone and rhythmic precision, sounded poised and graceful. It was hard to imagine the sequence better done.
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  56. “It’s massive, I don’t want to put too much stress on it because it’s just another game, but it is a game that is a must win. Let’s be honest,” he said. “It’s do-or-die, all-or-nothing, all these sort of quotes you want to say. It’s come down to 90 minutes against Peru and we know they’re a good team, but we’re also a good team. We can’t wait, we’ll get some bodies back also and we’ll go in there with a very strong squad.”
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  57. Players like leg-spinner Georgia Wareham and all-rounders Nicola Carey and Sophie Molineux are now mainstays in Australian sides. The squad for the current tour includes a battery of young gun bowlers in Darcie Brown, Hannah Darlington, Tayla Vlaeminck and Belinda Vakarewa. Ash Gardner has gone from a luxury player to an integral component. This is a new and vibrant Australia at the far end of the streak, not a team of hardened professionals.
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  58. Embodying an indestructible, physics-defying goat, you run across the map at supersonic speeds, crashing through obstacles with a headbutt, all while dragging anything you want alongside your furry little legs with the elastic grip of your tongue. (This can include chairs, explosives, and unlucky human beings.) The joy is found in pushing the goofy, hallucinogenic physics system to its absolute breaking point. Your goat can bounce off a trampoline into low orbit, or smash oncoming traffic towards the distant horizon. The most interesting difference from 2014’s Goat Simulator, aside from the larger arena of chaos, is that you can now do all of this in multiplayer.
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  59. “We weren’t aggressive enough with the bat, myself up top leading that. If one of us gets 60 or 70, that might have got us to 160 or 170, and then we’re only a couple of Powerplay overs away from really squeezing them. I thought the pitch played better than the other day. For a drop-in wicket to hold up over three games, unexpectedly too, is credit to the groundsman. For us the constant improvement from game one to game four was pleasing. New Zealand are a great side, and for them to bounce back wasn’t surprising. It’s been a pleasure being here.”
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  60. At the stadium Marcus Baines and his daughter Phoebe (seven, nearly eight) were at their first WSL match since buying a season ticket. “It’s as serious for the fans [as with the men’s games] but I don’t think there’s so much tension,” he said. “Some fans for the men go to cause trouble but in the ladies’ game we feel they don’t and it’s more of a mixed atmosphere.”
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  61. The spot was perfect for camouflage. At least that's what she thought when she picked the spot. She couldn't imagine that anyone would ever be able to see her in these surroundings. So there she sat, confident that she was hidden from the world and safe from danger. Unfortunately, she had not anticipated that others may be looking upon her from other angles, and now they were stealthily descending toward her hiding spot.
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  62. Despite its title, this game does not simulate the life and interests of the typical European goat. It is also not actually the third in a series; it’s the second, following 2014’s Goat Simulator. Chalk the numerological skip up to developer Coffee Stain Studios’ frivolous tone: Goat Simulator 3 is absolutely loaded with bizarre non sequiturs, blissfully stupid gags, and wild cartoon violence. This is the silliest (or stupidest) game of the year, and its low-stakes chaos has a way of winning you over.
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  63. Gardner did exactly her job, taking on New Zealand’s best bowler at a turning point of the game, and swerving that course in Australia’s favour. Belted her way to 73 from 48 balls in the end, making more than half the required runs on her own. Perry provided understated support, and more importantly got through her return match unscathed, although she was not required to bowl.
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  64. The wave roared towards them with speed and violence they had not anticipated. They both turned to run but by that time it was too late. The wave crashed into their legs sweeping both of them off of their feet. They now found themselves in a washing machine of saltwater, getting tumbled and not know what was up or down. Both were scared, not knowing how this was going to end, but it was by far the best time of the trip thus far.
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  65. Ravacley’s outsider challenge to Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party in the Doubs near the Swiss border in eastern France is focusing attention on the newly re-elected president’s image problem as being aloof, especially concerning people’s everyday worries.
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  66. ldar Gadzhiev’s heart sank when he heard the sputtering from the engine of his Skoda one day in April. Gadzhiev, who owns a fleet of four cars that he leases as taxicabs in Moscow, knew it was a terrible and expensive time for a breakdown.
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  67. She's asked the question so many times that she barely listened to the answers anymore. The answers were always the same. Well, not exactly the same, but the same in a general sense. A more accurate description was the answers never surprised her. So, she asked for the 10,000th time, "What's your favorite animal?" But this time was different. When she heard the young boy's answer, she wondered if she had heard him correctly.
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  68. Emmanuel Macron has consolidated his lead over Marine Le Pen as France’s presidential election enters its final week, according to polls, suggesting harsher scrutiny of the far-right challenger’s plans may be shifting the race’s dynamic.
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  69. He sat across from her trying to imagine it was the first time. It wasn't. Had it been a hundred? It quite possibly could have been. Two hundred? Probably not. His mind wandered until he caught himself and again tried to imagine it was the first time.
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  70. Officials from both governments had laid down some restrictions at the beginning of the joint press conference: three questions from Australian journalists, three from New Zealand journalists. There was minor confusion at the end about the counting, with Ardern thinking it was possible there was one last New Zealander on the list. But Albanese was confident the quota had been filled.
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  71. In an excellent piece for The Coaches’ Voices, Alf Ingve Berntsen, Haaland’s first coach at Bryne in Norway, pointed out that the environment the player grows up in also plays a part: “Having a safe and good environment, having Inge as a father, and being surrounded by his childhood friends has helped him a lot. Besides the influence of his father it was very important for him to grow up in a town like Bryne, a place where he didn’t have all the media attention that surrounds young footballers today.
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  72. Balloons are pretty and come in different colors, different shapes, different sizes, and they can even adjust sizes as needed. But don't make them too big or they might just pop, and then bye-bye balloon. It'll be gone and lost for the rest of mankind. They can serve a variety of purposes, from decorating to water balloon wars. You just have to use your head to think a little bit about what to do with them.
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  73. “Even when the opportunity came for him to take a bit of the limelight, his priority was to make sure that his decision didn’t negatively impact anyone else. He spoke really well ... to the rest of the playing group around the need to keep [the decision] from everyone so they could prioritise the team performance going into a finals series.”
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  74. Preliminary final weekend is supposed to be the people’s round. The following week is for the corporate and the fortunate. At preliminary finals, it’s a pure football crowd. But there’s nothing pure about “What’s New Pussycat?” following a check-side goal. There’s nothing pure about a perforated eardrum.
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  75. He dropped the ball. While most people would think that this was a metaphor of some type, in Joe's case it was absolutely literal. He had hopes of reaching the Major League and that dream was now it great jeopardy. All because he had dropped the ball.
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  76. Obviously Phillips wasn’t in on the plan to let Chapman bat, because Chapman faces two balls before Phillips finishes the match as quickly as possible. The bulk of the work though was done by Guptill. He made a brilliant 97 down in Dunedin, and finished off the series with his 71 here today. Conway was excellent in support as well, kept contributing to keeping the run rate high while also giving Guptill lots of strike. A century opening stand in T20 cricket will be enough to set up your team in just about any game, so it was easy for Phillips to come in and play with freedom to finish things off with 34 from 16 balls.
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  77. The Nottingham crowd was treated to bright sunshine and some wonderfully crisp strokeplay from the tourists, not least during the unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 149 between Mitchell and Tom Blundell that rekindled their bromance from Lord’s and saw the latter cruise his way to 67 not out. And Stokes was not without his reasons. There was a tinge of green on the pitch and the New Zealand top order that failed twice in last week’s five-wicket defeat had lost Kane Williamson to a positive Covid-19 test overnight.
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  78. Thanks so much for joining us for this last game of the Rose Bowl. I’m very glad we got some cricket in, it was looking pretty touch and go for a while there! It’ll be a while until we see some women’s cricket again, but until then, carry on bowling and try and do that thing with your hand and your wrist where you make it bounce funny.
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  79. The irony of the situation hadn't escaped her. She had taken years to sculpt the perfect persona with the perfect look that she shared on Instagram. She knew her hundreds of thousands of followers envied that life she showed and stayed engaged with her because they wanted that life too. The truth was that she wanted the perfect life she portrayed more than any of her fans. The fact was that despite all the perfection she shared on social media, her life was actually more of a mess than most.
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  80. The same approach persists. Nick Hockley, in Sutherland’s old chair, has called the Cape Town jaunt “a thorough investigation”, and repeated the line that CA would only look at information brought to it, rather than looking for anything itself. CA’s only move this week was to ask Bancroft if he had anything more to say, a move that likely made Bancroft feel that having nothing more to say would be a favourable position.
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  81. “Every experience is unique,” said Irvine, who scored the first goal in the win over the Emiratis. “It’s a very different environment but hopefully we’ll be there to deliver the same outcome.”
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  82. They had no proof. He knew that they knew he had done it but they didn't have any proof. It was a huge distinction and it was the difference between him keeping his freedom or being locked away for decades. They continued to question him, probing him for information that they could use against him or find the proof they needed to put him away. He smiled and continued to block their every inquiry by feigning his innocence for a crime they all knew he committed.
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  83. Six days from the runoff that will decide who occupies the Élysée Palace for the next five years, all 16 polls carried out since the first-round vote on 10 April have put the incumbent ahead, by between seven and 12 percentage points.
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  84. Albanese said despite the lower cost, it was still “an extraordinary waste from a government that was always big on announcement but not good on delivery, and from a government that will be remembered as the most wasteful government in Australia’s history since federation”.
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  85. He scolded himself for being so tentative. He knew he shouldn't be so cautious, but there was a sixth sense telling him that things weren't exactly as they appeared. It was that weird chill that rolls up your neck and makes the hair stand on end. He knew that being so tentative could end up costing him the job, but he learned that listening to his sixth sense usually kept him from getting into a lot of trouble.
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  86. The red ball sat proudly at the top of the toybox. It had been the last to be played with and anticipated it would be the next as well. The other toys grumbled beneath. At one time each had held the spot of the red ball, but over time they had sunk deeper and deeper into the toy box.
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  87. “Incredibly hard fought series. Outstanding to pick up some of what we learned from the first two games and adjust to that surface. It’s about the cricket that we want to play, and we know how strong the Australian side is. In some ways we got exposed on that surface, and they adapted far quicker than we did. When you’re playing three games on the same surface you get clearer on how you want to approach it. Clearly the slower bowlers on that surface were a little bit trickier. I want to thank Aaron and his team for coming over, I’m sure they’ve had enough quarantine by now.”
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  88. The amber droplet hung from the branch, reaching fullness and ready to drop. It waited. While many of the other droplets were satisfied to form as big as they could and release, this droplet had other plans. It wanted to be part of history. It wanted to be remembered long after all the other droplets had dissolved into history. So it waited for the perfect specimen to fly by to trap and capture that it hoped would eventually be discovered hundreds of years in the future.
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  89. Twenty-five hours had passed since the incident. It seemed to be a lot longer than that. That twenty-five hours seemed more like a week in her mind. The fact that she still was having trouble comprehending exactly what took place wasn't helping the matter. She thought if she could just get a little rest the entire incident might make a little more sense.
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  90. Sleeping in his car was never the plan but sometimes things don't work out as planned. This had been his life for the last three months and he was just beginning to get used to it. He didn't actually enjoy it, but he had accepted it and come to terms with it. Or at least he thought he had. All that changed when he put the key into the ignition, turned it and the engine didn't make a sound.
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  91. The wave crashed and hit the sandcastle head-on. The sandcastle began to melt under the waves force and as the wave receded, half the sandcastle was gone. The next wave hit, not quite as strong, but still managed to cover the remains of the sandcastle and take more of it away. The third wave, a big one, crashed over the sandcastle completely covering and engulfing it. When it receded, there was no trace the sandcastle ever existed and hours of hard work disappeared forever.
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  92. It will now be the backdrop to this year’s grand final. As the AFL chief executive, Gillon McLachlan, said on Wednesday, “it will be contextual in everything we do.” While Robbie Williams is warming up the vocal chords and Max Holmes is testing his hamstring, it will keep bubbling away. It cannot be ameliorated with snappy, six-sentence press releases, or shilly-shallying stand-ups. It will remind us that this isn’t really about Hawthorn, or even football generally. It’s the story of our country.
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  93. Football clubs, and the entire industry that feeds off the game, throw around words like “culture” as though they’re building orphanages. “Bloods Culture” and “The Family Club” almost become marketing terms. We build up the leaders, and particularly the coaches, to the point where they are apparently unimpeachable. We often forget that their ultimate business is winning, and that they will do anything to accomplish that. The “Whatever It Takes” sign at Essendon became something of a running joke during the supplements scandal. But there’s no joking about this story.
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  94. Niemann wants to be world champion, but his four rivals have the same ambition. That probably means, in terms of his spat with Carlsen, their paths are likely to cross less frequently in future and that will be accentuated by organisers knowing they cannot include them both.
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  95. The 53-year-old baker who hails from what he calls the “bottom rung of the social ladder” has captured France’s imagination as one of the most improbable newcomers in this weekend’s first round of the parliamentary elections.
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  96. Twenty-five years Dana had been waiting. She tried to be patient during that time but she hadn't always managed to be as patient as she'd like. But today the opportunity had finally come. The thing she always imagined would make her the happiest person in the world was about to happen. She didn't know why at this specific time she all of a sudden felt sick inside.
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  97. There were none of the fireworks from some previous leaders’ meetings, which mainly arose from differences over Australia’s practice of deporting New Zealand nationals on character grounds, including those who had moved to Australia as children and had no real connections in their country of citizenship.
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  98. “When I went on hunger strike, I was initially met with silence from the authorities and that changed me as a person,” Ravacley said. “I’ve become a monster now – a kind and gentle monster – I really understand that if you want to change things you have to fight for it.”
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  99. It was easy to spot her. All you needed to do was look at her socks. They were never a matching pair. One would be green while the other would be blue. One would reach her knee while the other barely touched her ankle. Every other part of her was perfect, but never the socks. They were her micro act of rebellion.
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  100. She patiently waited for his number to be called. She had no desire to be there, but her mom had insisted that she go. She's resisted at first, but over time she realized it was simply easier to appease her and go. Mom tended to be that way. She would keep insisting until you wore down and did what she wanted. So, here she sat, patiently waiting for her number to be called.
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  101. Macron is seeking a centrist parliamentary majority in order to have a free hand for his policies, such as raising the pension age and overhauling the benefits system. But turnout on 12 and 19 June is expected to be at a record low of less than 48% amid a growing mistrust of the political class. Some voters feel that the real battle will take place with street demonstrations against Macron’s policies from the autumn, so there’s “not much point” in voting, as one unemployed man said on a housing estate in the eastern town of Besançon.
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  102. The second half brought a change of mood. Sur la Naissance, in which the shepherd and shepherdess Tircis and Sylvie (Nicholas Scott and Julie Roset, both excellent) comment on the nativity – at one point wryly discussing Joseph’s age – before leading their fellows in adoration, is engaging if slight. It was done, un-conducted, as a chamber piece, in which Christie actually played the tambourine, but the deft ensemble work couldn’t quite disguise the piece’s unevenness of tone. In Nativitatem Domini Canticum is a more sober examination of the same narrative, and there is also something of the Antiennes’ reflectiveness in a breathtaking passage in which theshepherds express their wonder on first seeing the Christ child. Again, it was immaculately done, the playing sensuous and detailed, the singing matchless in its quiet intensity.
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  103. “I just wanted to give myself a little bit of time early,” Haynes says. “Learning from game one there was a little bit of swing and it was tough to get started. I was just trying to hang in there ... and was probably afforded a little bit of time early to bat on. Just disappointing I wasn’t able to bat a little bit deeper.
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  104. There’s more later, once Margolyes hosts her first Christmas lunch (no mock turtle soup here) with surplus food collected and cooked by someone from the Felix Project, a charity which cooks food for those in need using food that would otherwise go to waste. “It’s incredible that we waste all this food, and yet 400,000 children in London every day don’t have a proper meal,” says Leon, the charity’s head chef. Dickens would have approved, says our host, sitting at the head of the table, wearing a crown, and not for the first time making me think how great it would be if Margolyes were queen.
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  105. It had been a simple realization that had changed Debra's life perspective. It was really so simple that she was embarrassed that she had lived the previous five years with the way she measured her worth. Now that she saw what she had been doing, she could see how sad it was. That made her all the more relieved she had made the change. The number of hearts her Instagram posts received wasn't any longer the indication of her own self-worth.
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  106. The boxed moved. That was a problem. Peter had packed the box three hours before and there was nothing inside that should make it move. The question now was whether or not Peter was going to open it up and look inside to see why it had moved. The answer to that question was obvious. Peter dropped the package into the mailbox so he would never have to see it again.
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  107. She sat deep in thought. The next word that came out o her mouth would likely be the most important word of her life. It had to be exact with no possibility of being misinterpreted. She was ready. She looked deeply into his eyes and said, "Octopus."
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  108. When Albanese did what Morrison was always reluctant to do – explicitly and unequivocally acknowledge climate change as a national security challenge – Ardern nodded in agreement. When Albanese observed that it was as if Australia was now out of the “naughty corner” on climate policy, Ardern chuckled.
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  109. He wandered down the stairs and into the basement. The damp, musty smell of unuse hung in the air. A single, small window let in a glimmer of light, but this simply made the shadows in the basement deeper. He inhaled deeply and looked around at a mess that had been accumulating for over 25 years. He was positive that this was the place he wanted to live.
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  110. With the election likely be won by the candidate who can reach beyond his or her camp to convince voters that the other option would be far worse, both candidates are looking to attract some of the 7.7 million voters who backed the far-left’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round.
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  111. She had been told time and time again that the most important steps were the first and the last. It was something that she carried within her in everything she did, but then he showed up and disrupted everything. He told her that she had it wrong. The first step wasn't the most important. The last step wasn't the most important. It was the next step that was the most important.
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  112. Selwood is the third consecutive Geelong captain to retire after a premiership, following Tom Harley in 2009 and Cameron Ling in 2011. He is the only player in Geelong’s history to win four flags (2007, 2009, 2011, 2022) and is the club’s games record holder with 355 appearances across 16 seasons. He also played in two losing grand finals (2008 and 2020).
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  113. The shades were closed keeping the room dark. Peter knew that he should open them and let in the sunlight so he could begin the day, but he didn't have the energy or willpower. Nothing had gone as expected the day before and he no longer wanted to spend the energy to begin a new day. He stared at the shades wondering if there was a way to disappear from the reality of the world for the rest of the day.
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  114. To the two friends, the treehouse was much more than a treehouse. It was a sanctuary away from the other kids where they could be themselves without being teased or bullied. It was their secret fortress hidden high in the branches of a huge oak that only they knew existed. At least that is what they thought. They were more than a little annoyed when their two younger sisters decided to turn the treehouse into a princess castle by painting the inside pink and putting glitter everywhere.
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  115. And so the training begins. Bieber’s camp is notified (“It wasn’t a real challenge!” Scooter Braun says, sweating into a phone. “He just hadn’t slept! Call off Tom Cruise!”) and Cruise rises at 5am. Shuttle-runs up the temple steps. Pint glasses filled with raw egg yolks. So far, the normal Cruise routine. But then he intensifies: speedbags, log lifts, a daily session where five or six devotees try to snap at his skin with a belt. “Carbon becomes diamond through pressure,” Cruise spits through his teeth. “Iron when blasted becomes steel.” He hasn’t eaten in days. He hasn’t slept in weeks. At night, he prowls along the ramparts like a panther, feral at the moon.
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  116. Australia and Irvine are no strangers to the playoffs route, having reached the 2018 World Cup in Russia after two-legged knockouts against Syria and Honduras. Irvine played in the scoreless first leg of that playoff against Honduras and was an unused substitute for the decisive 3-1 win in the return leg in Sydney, where Australia sealed qualification for a fourth successive World Cup in front of an ecstatic crowd of 77,000 at the Olympic stadium.
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  117. dvent and Christmas in late 17th-century Paris was the subject of this Les Arts Florissants concert, conducted by William Christie and focusing on music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Given on Christie’s 78th birthday, it was an evening of contrasts in many ways. The first half interwove Charpentier’s austere Antiennes O de L’Avent with a sequence of instrumental Noëls, basically arrangements of popular carols of the day. After the interval came more dramatic – if more uneven – works, depicting the Adoration of the Shepherds: the pastorale Sur la Naissance de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ; and the short oratorio In Nativitatem Domini Canticum.
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  118. For Australians this creates a deep inner conflict. Covering cricket professionally, I’m spared the angst of parochialism and can enjoy the game more broadly. It’s much more relaxing, and highly recommended. But since India flipped the pitch in the current series to win two Tests in a row, the angst on the faces of my cricket compatriots has been clear to see. Wanting England to win is anathema to everything we’re raised to believe.
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  119. She patiently waited for his number to be called. She had no desire to be there, but her mom had insisted that she go. She's resisted at first, but over time she realized it was simply easier to appease her and go. Mom tended to be that way. She would keep insisting until you wore down and did what she wanted. So, here she sat, patiently waiting for her number to be called.
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  120. And perhaps tampering should be prevalent, or call it having more options in managing the most important piece of equipment on the field. Players do not scuff the ball for reverse when it is spinning or swinging conventionally. They do so when there is little else on offer. A game that helps bowlers is a better game. Reverse swing creates so many of the great moments and still requires great skill. Cricket is long overdue for a reasoned discussion about what could be acceptable, rather than a reflexive response from a 19th-century moral inheritance.
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  121. Meg Lanning says she always thought they were a bit light for runs, though she was confident their bowlers were a decent chance to compete. Bringing the game to the final ball shows that they did. “We felt like we needed to take wickets to stay in the contest, so it was a matter of balancing that with the run rate. That last ball, I don’t think there was too much wrong with it, but that’s the way it goes.”
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  122. In these experiences and many more I knew I was an interloper and in my mind I had no choice but to accept the rewards of that along with everything else. The rewards were the atmosphere and getting to see my team play, everything else being the groping, the lingering stares, the cat calling; in addition to being exposed to the unchecked and extreme racism, the casual homophobia and the relentless, aggressive abuse of players on both sides.
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  123. One pilot who regularly covered midhaul flights to the UK and other European destinations for his airline wrote that the situation was “fucked”, adding that he felt his company was ignoring safety concerns brought up by pilots on a regular basis.
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  124. She was infatuated with color. She didn't have a favorite color per se, but she did have a fondness for teals and sea greens. You could see it in the clothes she wore that color was an important part of her overall style. She took great pride that color flowed from her and that color was always all around her. That is why, she explained to her date sitting across the table, that she could never have a serious relationship with him due to the fact that he was colorblind.
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