Sachin, Dravid place India on the pedestal
25.01.10
Yes, was the call and Sachin Tendulkar scored his 45th test century. Dravid finding his feet reached his 29th test century to take India’s lead to 226 runs.Sehwag and Gambhir resuming play, the bowlers were belted as both the batsman reached their half centuries.
Sehwag played solid with some hard shots and Gambhir with a sweet timing and deflections reached his fifty- eleventh in succession to equal Sir Viv Richards’s record. Sehwag drove hard and straight to bring three digits but the next ball climbed unto him to take off from the gloves and landing in hands of Rahim. Dravid took his time to settle down and was Lucky in couple of occasions.
Shafiul claimed for a run out when Gambhir drove the ball straight, but the third umpire ruled in favour of the batsman. The next when Rubel made him play and Junaid Siddique took the catch at slip, but Billy Bowden signaled it as no ball. Having favoured twice Dravid played more cautiously and without giving any more chances played superbly.
Source: Indiainfo.com
Elizabeth Edwards Teeters on Her Pedestal
16.01.10
In a new book about the 2008 presidential campaign, “Game Change,” Elizabeth Edwards is portrayed as “an abusive, intrusive, paranoid, condescending crazywoman,” and nothing like her image as “St. Elizabeth.”
According to the book’s authors, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, well before John Edwards ’s affair with the New Age videographer Rielle Hunter , Mrs. Edwards was known to demean her husband (“She called her spouse a ‘hick’ in front of other people and derided his parents as rednecks”) and to bully his staff. “The nearly universal assessment among them,” the authors write of the long-suffering Edwards aides, “was that there was no one on the national stage for whom the disparity between public image and private reality was vaster or more disturbing.”
The revelations are sometimes unsourced and often omniscient. The authors’ suggestions that Mrs. Edwards’s sharp tongue drove her husband out on the road, and in “steering clear of his wife,” he ended up in the arms of Ms. Hunter, have been denounced as sexist and insensitive to Mrs. Edwards’s real suffering.
Source: New York Times