Ponting, in particular, was cutting, pulling and driving with consummate ease and a booming front-foot drive saw the Tasmanian surpass Inzamam-ul-Haq and move to third in the all-time leading one-day run scorers, with only Sanath Jayasuriya and Sachin Tendulkar now in front of him.
Jonathon Niese (13-9, 3.40 ERA) gets the opening day assignment in place of the two-time Cy Young Award winner, who pitched the first no-hitter in franchise history last year but then collapsed after June.
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But Maddy overcame a sketchy start expanded to reach 50 in the four-day format for the first time since breaking a thumb in May.
Malik and Misbah provided a late flourish with a fifth wicket stand of 99 from 70 balls as five batsmen from the same team made fifties in a one-day international for the first time.
Tees were brought forward for the second day in succession - this time by 321 yards - and Harrington took advantage by carding five birdies and one bogey.
He pointed out that the rest of the day in the Commons was dedicated to a general debate - time, he said, that could have been dedicated to private members' bills.
That self-inflicted wound was compounded by the failure simultaneously to explain that it chronicled not their day-to-day treatment, but a single moment in time: The exceedingly dangerous transition of hardened and ruthless terrorists from the plane that brought them to Cuba to their cells.
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It has now pulled back from that potential resistance level, and in the process it broke below the previous support at its 21-day moving average for the first time since the rally began in early September.
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Australia had dominated the second half of the day - a commendable achievement given their toils in the first three Tests - and still believe they have time to win the match and square the series.
The 31-year-old is due to fly back out to rejoin the tour on 10 March in time for the five-match one-day series.
Prices also dropped below the key 200-day moving average for the first time in two months.
Prices on Friday also dropped below the key 200-day moving average for the first time in two months.
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In a hot and humid Hong Kong, O'Connell is set to lead out the team against the Barbarians -- a scratch team of international players -- with 17 of the 23 players in the Lions' match-day squad pulling on the team jersey for the first time.
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You're the reason a woman in Doral, who's already working full-time during the day, can now afford to go to school at night because she's getting the financial aid that she needs. (Applause.) You're the reason there's families in Florida who are able to save their homes from foreclosure, and keep that piece of the American Dream.
Pools drew at MK Dons on the opening day and knocked out Championship side Coventry in the League Cup with an extra-time goal from Adam Boyd.
Defense forces from all of ASEAN, along with eight other countries that include the United States and China, would hold for the first time three-day disaster response drills in Brunei in June to foster confidence among the multinational troops, the draft summit statement said.
Trading in water rights may one day bring order to the 20m well-users in India, but not in time to feed the 1.4 billion Indian mouths expected by 2025.
Shaun Marcum (0-4) made it out of the fifth for the first time in four starts since beginning the year on the 15-day disabled list.
Shaun Marcum (0-4) made it out of the fifth for the first time in four starts since beginning the year on the 15-day disabled list and singled twice for his first career multihit game.
He will set a new record on Wednesday when he leads them for the 194th time in a one-day international.
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Plan B, which is the only thing the House of Representatives, the Republicans in the House, are focused on right now is a multi-day exercise in futility at a time when we do not have the luxury of exercises in futility.
The Monetary Policy Committee has not made such a dramatic reduction in rates since it was set up 11 years ago--the last time borrowing costs fell so fast in one day was in 1993.
Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war in August 2008 over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia -- the first time Russia sent troops abroad to fight since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
One of the unfortunate paradoxes of the post-September 11 environment is that the further in time we move from that horrible day, and the more effective our security agencies become at preventing another successful terrorist attack on American soil, the more susceptible many Americans become to the notion that the terrorist threat has receded.
One factor here is that a number of Northern Ireland MPs who may be in the US for St Patrick's Day, and who won't get back in time - given that this could be a very tight vote, that factor could even be decisive.
The Waltons were the biggest gainers of the day on the Forbes Real-Time index, which tracks the gains and losses in major public holdings of a select group of billionaires.
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