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Long-handled metal colander with a glossy porcelain enamel finish. Made by a 461-year-old Austrian company. Strain away. Also available in large. Part of a set with the white soup ladle and the slotted ladle.(
Don't let the porcelain-white surface and delicately placed holes fool you — this colander can take the heat of a thousand boiling pots of pasta water. It just means it's also charming enough to serve a freshly washed bowl of cherries. A long, hollow handle keeps the heat off your hands, and a hook on the other end lets you suspend the colander on the lip of a pot until every last drop has drained.
The colander is also available as part of a set with the white soup ladle and the slotted ladle.
This colander is made in Austria by a company with roots going back to the year 1550, and they've been specializing in porcelain enamel for the past 80 years. Porcelain enamel is made from glass and steel — so it's shiny and unbreakable. The smooth surface is easy to clean, and doesn't leech any harmful chemicals, like BPA in plastic.
The company that makes this colander strives to produce their enamelware with a minimum of energy waste. They have their own hydroelectric power stations, reuse generated heat three times over, and are working toward fuel oil-independence.
Use & Care
No need to polish or treat this carefully, the porcelain enamel can withstand heat, weight, moisture or any other force a colander will come across.
Safe in the dishwasher, but the smooth surface makes it easy to clean for the hand washers among us.
Production & Design
Only natural, abundantly available raw materials are used for enameling this colander (namely: glass, a potassium compound and metal oxide).
To carry out the high-heat enameling of their products, the company constructed three of their own hydroelectric power stations that allow them to use 100% green electricity. This saves 4,600 tons of carbon dioxide and 3.6 tons of sulfur oxide and sulfur dioxide from ever being made and released into our air. The construction of their drying and burning facilities allows them to use and reuse the heat they generate for three different purposes. They're excited about residual heat and are working towards the day when they are completely independent from fuel oil.
This colander will last you a lifetime, but just in case you get into a terrible fight with it, it is 100% recyclable.
Further Reading
Enamelware, Kaufmann Mercantile References
Porcelain, Kaufmann Mercantile References
Diameter: 8.5 inches (21.59 cm)
Handle length: 7.5 inches (19.05 cm)
- Porcelain enamel coating
- Metal core
Dishwasher safe
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Today in History – August 28, 1883 – John J. Montgomery makes first controlled "heavier than air" glider flight at Wheeler Hill, California. He sails a distance of 603 feet at an altitude of about fifteen feet. He continued to perfect the design by making and testing modifications. In 1894, he published a summary of this work in Octave Chanute's "Progress in Flying"; a book that the Wright Brothers are reported to have read. Montgomery was the first person to use the term "aeroplane" and was granted the first "aeroplane" patent in 1906. Montgomery died testing one of his powered designs for Vicor Loughead (later Lockheed) in 1911. Norman Ward reconstructed the 1883 Montgomery Glider shown in the photograph above right.
It took close to another century later for the Gossamer Condor to be the first human powered flight around a figure eight. This team effort, under the leadership of Paul B. MacCready, Jr., won the $50,000 Kremer Prize and captured the world's attention. Bryan Allen maintained a head-height during the 7 1/2 minute figure eight flight.
British millionaire Henry Kremer and the Royal Aeronautical Society offered the Kremer Prize to the "designer who could create a human-powered flying machine". After 18 years of no winners, MacCready's Gossamer Condor made history in 1977 when it became the first human-powered vehicle to achieve a sustained flight, performing a complex maneuver.
The Gossamer Condor is now on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. MacCready went on to win a number of other flight firsts and also developed the solar-powered Sunraycer that competed in a race across Australia. His 1990 electric car, built in collaboration with General Motors, resulted in the Impact electric car that could accelerate from zero to 60 mph in eight seconds.
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Yeah, Gaiman did do an AMAZE-ZA-ZING 3-part with Cooper! It's called The Last Temptation and was written as a companion/promo for Cooper's album of the same name. The art is all black-and-white inks by Michael Zulli--my fave comic artist--and are breathtaking. You can get it in a spiffy hardcover (and I think paperback) from Dark Horse--for some reason Marvel's not printing it anymore.
The Dark Tower is worth checking out if you're not into horror--it's a sci-fi/fantasy/western/lots of other genres series and is King at the top of his game. The sequence ties in to tons of his other works, like 'Salem's Lot, The Eyes of the Dragon (another fantasy, not horror, book from King) and The Stand (which is now being serialized by Marvel--they're into the second story arc).
I adore Miller and 300. I liked the movie, too. I haven't seen Sin City yet (yeah, it was a movie too), and I can't wait to finally see it!
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Not a great place – We stayed in Ocean Manor Resort for 4 days and booked through VRBO. During that time, we noticed that the building was in great need of repair. There were broken mirrors in the elevator area that was repaired with duct tape, stains on the floors, cracks in the walls, air vents that need to be cleaned, debris piled on rooftops and horrible paint jobs. Also there was a great deal of unsupervised young (meaning well under 25) people there, and they were hosting graduation parties for high school children. It was loud, obnoxious, and there was a fight in the lobby. Every time we went outside we were stopped and asked if we were guests at the resort. It was really annoying. In the pool area, they were blasting loud music with foul language and suggestive material in full listening range of small children. The drinks at the tiki hut were poorly made and outrageously expensive. The room we were staying in was very small, with poor plumbing, a bathroom door that wouldn't close and cracks in the counters and the floors, not to mention the shocking yellow walls, white trim, and green ceilings that made you feel like you were sleeping in a Sprite can. The air conditioning unit was very dusty and sounded like a truck running all night. However, the view was wonderful, and, since the weather was great, we tried to stay out of the room as much as possible. All in all, not one of my better resort experiences. We won't be staying there again.
Old hotel on beautiful beach – excellent strip of beach, the hotel is old and in need of/in the process of being remodeled. we woke up every morning to the noises of remodeling, not a big deal considering we went in the off season. no real problems at this hotel, there is a tiki bar which can be loud at night/morning, a/c wasn't working very well, but overall we stayed for a week and didn't run into any problems. the beach is really the best part of this hotel, kind of secluded and not packed at all (keep in mind we traveled in late august), the place is probably not for kids and families for the most part.
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We must somehow persuade those evildoers to dress up in really stinky fleece and those dorky Andean hats with tasseled earflaps. We have to issue gang members some REI camping equipment and get them to heat up chickpea cutlets over a propane stove. And then all we have to do is stand back and watch the HPD kick some serious butt.
The Hartford police sometimes seem to struggle with, you know, fighting crime, and whenever people like me bring this up we are told that we cannot possibly imagine the degree to which police resources are stretched paper thin, so that life is one never-ending process of triage. Do we send the cruiser to get the guy smashing the window of a jewelry store to get a letter opener to kill his brother-in-law or the guy selling heroin at gunpoint to children inside a church?
Probably neither, if either scenario was unfolding on Tuesday. In order to drive out Occupy Hartford, the city assembled a paramilitary force sufficient to repel an invading army of orcs armed with grenade launchers. Every available patrol car, plus cops on horses, plus cops in riot gear, plus a special G66 Tactical Garbage Truck were needed to handle the threat posed by 15 vegetarians with sinus infections.
Hartford police surrounded the Occupy Hartford site on Tuesday with 20 or more cruisers in one of the most disproportionate cop-to-protester ratios in the history of dissent. If every single person living at Occupy Hartford were placed in a separate police car and driven to the Massachusetts line, there still would have been more than five police cars left that could be used to try to run over television reporter Bob Wilson and direct pedestrians off the sidewalk and into the path of cars and other vital police functions.
This may seem like overkill to those of you who lack criminal justice training. The Occupy Hartford people had signaled that this was an unstable situation by agreeing to cooperate fully with the police.
Police Chief Daryl Roberts said earlier in the day that the occupiers had "lost sight of their objective," which strikes me as unfair inasmuch as everybody kept complaining they didn't have a clear objective in the first place.
Toward the end of the day, as the 6 p.m. deadline approached and some of the park-dwellers were engaging in defiant acts of cooperation and submission, Hartford cops showed up in full riot gear with assault rifles, just in case some drippy-nosed Dayquil-head flipped out.
By Wednesday, the site had been restored to its proper state: a weedy vacant lot and former future home of the Pathways to Technology Magnet School.
Former Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez tried, in defiance of the state, to build a school there, driven by his commitment to education, his belief that the souls of contractors are enriched by meaningful work and his conviction that, if you build a school right in the midst of interstate ramps and major commuter arteries, the children who are still alive after five years will be the smart, agile ones who can create a new generation of leaders.
Eventually, a guy who owned a building in Windsor hired lawyer-lobbyist Tom Ritter, a former speaker of the House and a person whose influence in Connecticut makes Richelieu look like a lay chalicist in Chantilly. And that's how a planned Hartford magnet school came to be located somewhere else.
But don't lose your faith in government, people of the Occupy movement!. Just because you and your Tibetan blankets and your extremely wordy signs have been treated like the renascent Symbionese Liberation Army, that's no reason to descend into a dark place of unreasoning nihilism.
An exciting political season is about to unfold, and you have the opportunity to throw your newly acquired political clout behind Chris Murphy or Susan Bysiewicz or Linda McMahon or Lisa Wilson-Foley or Chris Donovan or …
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Just try to get some antibiotics for that sinus thing, and we'll see you in the spring, OK?
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I just noticed my AT&T sim card is not being recognised anymore after bricking my unit following the H/W unlock process. In short I am one of those people got stuck somewhere at hardware unlocking.
I was able to revive my unit restoring it to 1.1.3 therefore I have now 4.03.13_G baseband firmware. I noticed my AT&T isn't recognised anymore. I downgraded to 111 and upgraded back to 112 both jailbroken and activated still AT&T is not being recognised as correct SIM.
Message says: Incorrect SIM This iPhone must be used with an approved SIM.
This message wasn't showing up before the h/w unlock.
I am not worried with the AT&T SIM as will not use it anyway here in Australia, I just want to make sure nothing is wrong with my unit and hoping it is the AT&T SIM got messed up.
Is this normal with 4.03.13_G baseband? I hope there's nothing wrong with my unit as I am now just waiting for the TURBO SIM i ordered.
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Communism Bit: On
Location: Job, of course
Random things. I'd not manage to write them otherwise.
First, Baz wrote this here: Here and Then. If you didn't read it, go now. Read already. It's a beautiful piece. I keep going back to it.
Next, I've never really read any of Florence King's stuff, but she's the kind of intellectual I like. Basically, she's a rebel. American but monarchist. A misanthrope comme moi, and calls herself "conservative lesbian feminist". But I found this quote of hers that is why she shows up here:
As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to 'be' college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.To add another French-originated word to that, touché. More later.
I hate Wikipedia. It takes more away than it gives. The only excuse I have for using it is how cheap it is to use it. I don't know if I don't hurt myself by using a cheap collection of mistakes and shit. I'll not go into details about why Wikipedia is total bullshit. The editors are the worst kind. The Americentricism is like a cancer there. Anyway, a time will come when we figure out something (nearly) as cheap, but with better quality. Wikipedia is a beginning, and not nearly an achievement at all. It may even be a failure.
But I'll keep using it. :o)
Also, since Dennis mentioned it, I'll take the time to say I think the Japanese cultural element of seppuku (or hara-kiri) is a good example of why I'll abolish the concept of honour after the Revolution. Honour is like slavery, chauvinism, and other concepts that may have been okay back then but have been exposed as evils recently. Honour almost invariably involves death, if you've noticed. Honour murders, honour rapes, honour suicides, honour raids ... Honour is closely related to revenge (against oneself or another). And revenge, when executed by humans, is invariably a failure at whatever it wants to be (bar wanting to be a failure).
Now, John Taylor Gatto. Notorious anti-school person. A teacher for decades. Teacher of the Year Award winner (quit the same year). Here are two things, one being Against School, and the other being The Psychopathic School (must-read). I quote the last one, here:
Using school as a sorting mechanism, we appear to be on the way to creating a caste system, complete with untouchables who wander through subway trains begging and who sleep upon the streets.I fear to quote more, lest I lengthen this beyond what even I consider a long post. Just understand that you have to read that piece. It's about America's schooling system, but we are committing the same error here, in Uganda. Then again, if we dared diverge, the aid would be cut. The result is that we'll have many people who are certainly schooled (with papers to prove it) but not educated. (America has many; their President once called Africa a country, for example.) TV features a lot in that essay, as a bad thing. Solitude features as a good thing. .oO Hmm.[1]
It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to sit in confinement with people of exactly the same age and social class.
It is absurd and anti-life to move from cell to cell at the sound of a gong for every day of your natural youth in an institution that allows you no privacy and even follows you into the sanctuary of your home demanding that you do its "homework."
We shouldn't let that happen. I think that, if you really want the best for a child, right now, you'd have to face the fact that education is better attained by watching a fist-fight on the street than in class. If you want to teach your children to pick their minds, to think independently, challenge norms, be creative, school is the last place you want them to go. School is the very opposite of what anyone will call a good education. I've been a good school person, then also a self-taught drop-out, and my experience echoes what many smart people have told me, and it's what I assert here. Enough said.
A short Wikipedia article on one of John Taylor Gatto's books.
Happy mid-week.
Reminds me of a comic I saw yesterday ...
[1] I know a number of people who do little-to-no TV and lots of solitude, some of them my blogren. And, yes, they are of admirable education (even though their schooling is not always exemplary; some are even anti-school). Most of my admired figures are actually not schooled.


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Fargo man on road to recovery since September motorcycle accidentFargo, MN (WDAY TV) - A Fargo man is on a long road to recovery following a near-death accident in early September.
Fargo, MN (WDAY TV) - A Fargo man is on a long road to recovery following a near-death accident in early September.
Chris McCrackin was hit by an SUV. He broke an arm, knee and ankle, and suffered a brain injury.
Nearly two months after Chris's motorcycle accident and life is far from normal for the 23-year-old.
Although he was wearing a jacket and helmet the morning of the crash, he's not only left with physical challenges, but is battling a brain injury.
Since Chris's legs could reach the pedals…
Chris McCrackin- Crash Victim: "Riding bikes has been my life pretty much."
…Tackling BMX tracks nationwide in high gear towards another gold souvenir…
McCrackin: "As I was riding my stationary bike…"
…But a bump would send Chris off track.
McCrackin: "I noticed a muddy footprint going up the west stairwell."
Sometimes when the ride gets rough, you have to shift gears.
McCrackin: "It's like she put a pause button on my life and I can't hit play."
It was here… Nearly two months ago, while riding his motorcycle, an SUV pulled out in front of Chris.
McCrackin: "I was in the blind spot of the lady, they said."
His body would take a beating...
McCrackin: "Having a torn ACL, a broken knee, ankle, and arm."
Coreen McCrackin- Mother: "He was tubed and taped and he had neck braces; IVs everywhere…"
Chris would spend days in a coma.
Now, he's hoping learning to reuse his hands and mind is as easy as riding his bike.
McCrackin: "What deficits might be present and what skills you maintain..."
With hours of therapy, Chris is picking up momentum.
Games of memory and strategy help him create a blueprint to recovery.
McCrackin: "You can see good progress sometimes, but you have setback though."
Recovery is not a sprint…
McCrackin: "I always have just picked my own line and stuck it."
It's a marathon.
McCrackin: "I always just want to do my best no matter what place I get."
The McCrackins say despite insurance, the medical bills are piling up in the hundreds of thousands.
If you're interested in helping out the family, a spaghetti feed and silent auction is set to take place at Rick's Bar this Sunday from 4 to 9.
All of the money goes to Chris.
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It may seem like a long way from Moroccan chickens to the economic crisis in Argentina, the recent financial upheavals in Southeast Asia, the failures of post-Soviet capitalism, and anti-globalization protests on the streets of Seattle and Genoa, but in "Globalization and Its Discontents" (Norton; $24.95) Stiglitz argues that all these matters are related. In promoting private enterprise wherever it can, the I.M.F. was following the so-called Washington Consensus view of economic development, which sees the expansion of free-market capitalism as the route to prosperity. With the backing of the United States Department of the Treasury, the I.M.F. urges governments everywhere to privatize, liberalize, and retrench. In the past twenty-five years, many developing countries have followed this advice, dismantling their public-sector enterprises and opening up their economies to international trade and investment. As a result, the world has become more interconnected than ever, with the level of exports, imports, and cross-border investment all increasing sharply.
According to classic economic theory, this expansion of trade and commerce should have made humanity a lot better off. Ever since Adam Smith, economists have generally agreed that trade is a good thing, because it allows countries to specialize in what they do best. This "division of labor" (Smith's phrase) raises productivity, which results in more income to spend on food, health, education, and consumer goods. Although some people lose their jobs as the pattern of trade changes, the winners gain enough to compensate the losers and still have some left over for themselves.
During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, when countries like South Korea and Singapore were exporting their way out of poverty, the theory seemed to be working as advertised. Globalization, in Stiglitz's words, "helped hundreds of millions of people attain higher standards of living, beyond what they, or most economists, thought imaginable." During the past decade, however, something has gone wrong. Since 1990, the number of people living on less than two dollars a day has risen by more than a hundred million, to three billion. The gap between rich and poor countries has turned into a chasm. Even relatively prosperous parts of the developing world, such as Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, have fallen into unprecedented slumps. "Globalization today is not working for many of the world's poor," Stiglitz declares. "It is not working for much of the environment. It is not working for the stability of the global economy."
Why not? According to Stiglitz, the rich countries have hijacked globalization, using as weapons the I.M.F., the World Trade Organization, and other international bodies that are supposed to act in the interests of all countries. These institutions are "all too often closely aligned with the commercial and financial interests of those in the advanced industrial countries," Stiglitz writes, and the net effect of the policies they promote is "to benefit the few at the expense of the many, the well-off at the expense of the poor." The governments of the rich countries have pushed developing nations to open their borders to computers and banking services but continued to protect their own farmers and textile workers from the cheap food and clothes that poor countries produce. They have supported the extension of patent agreements that guarantee high profits for Western pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Merck while depriving African governments of the drugs they need to fight an AIDS epidemic. "The critics of globalization accuse Western countries of hypocrisy," Stiglitz writes, "and the critics are right."
If this argument brings to mind the young protesters who have made a business of disrupting international summits, Stiglitz is unapologetic. Until the anti-globalization movement came along, "there was little hope for change and no outlets for complaint," he writes. "Some of the protestors went to excesses; some of the protestors were arguing for higher protectionist barriers against the developing countries, which would have made their plight even worse. But despite these problems, it is the trade unionists, students, environmentalists—ordinary citizens—marching in the streets of Prague, Seattle, Washington, and Genoa who have put the need for reform on the agenda of the developed world."
As this passage suggests, Stiglitz is part of a growing heterodoxy that seeks to define a middle ground between the Washington Consensus and the more radical elements of the anti-globalization movement. The financier and philanthropist George Soros is part of the dissenting movement, too, and he has written a pithy little book, "On Globalization" (Public Affairs; $20), setting out his views and his recommendations for reform. Like Stiglitz, Soros supports globalization in principle but is dismayed at the narrow focus among policymakers on expanding trade and industry. "International trade and global financial markets are very good at generating wealth, but they cannot take care of other social needs, such as the preservation of peace, alleviation of poverty, protection of the environment, labor conditions, or human rights," he maintains.
Soros's book is clearly written, but it doesn't carry as much weight as Stiglitz's. As a leading economic theorist and someone who has served in senior government positions, Stiglitz has a perspective on his subject which can hardly be ignored. Within four years of obtaining his Ph.D., from M.I.T., in 1967, he had published more than fifteen academic papers, several of which are now regarded as seminal. He has since established himself as an expert in many areas of economics, including finance, development, and the public sector.
The common theme running through Stiglitz's academic work is that markets often don't work in the simplistic way that is taught in Econ. 101. Because of complications like asymmetries of information between buyers and sellers, markets sometimes fail to work at all, and the government has to step in. (It was Stiglitz's work on asymmetric information that won him a Nobel Prize.) In 1993, when Stiglitz joined the White House Council of Economic Advisers, at the start of the Clinton Administration, he naïvely thought he saw the chance to "forge an economic policy and philosophy that viewed the relationship between government and markets as complementary." Instead, he found that "decisions were often made because of ideology and politics. As a result many wrong-headed actions were taken."
Stiglitz stayed at the council for four years, eventually becoming its chairman. In 1997, he moved a few hundred yards along Pennsylvania Avenue to the World Bank. The World Bank and the I.M.F. had been founded at the end of the Second World War to promote expansionary Keynesian policies around the globe, with the bank focussing on long-term development and the fund on short-term crisis management, but they long ago converted to the tenets of what Stiglitz calls free-market fundamentalism. The I.M.F., in particular, seems to revel in its role as enforcer of the Washington Consensus. Since countries approach the I.M.F. only when they are desperate for money, the fund has a good deal of leverage, which it uses to force governments to cut budget deficits, raise taxes, and close down or sell off state enterprises. Though these reforms are sometimes necessary, Stiglitz maintains that the I.M.F.'s representatives are often oblivious of the human suffering they cause. "Modern high-tech warfare is designed to remove physical contact: dropping bombs from 50,000 feet ensures that one does not 'feel' what one does," he writes. "Modern economic management is similar: from one's luxury hotel, one can callously impose policies about which one would think twice if one knew the people whose lives one was destroying."
Countries like Singapore and South Korea hardly needed economic advice from anybody. Through a combination of hard work, high savings rates, and extensive government intervention, they had turned themselves into universally admired models for development. Between 1950 and 1990, South Korea raised its gross domestic product per capita from ninety dollars to forty-four hundred dollars. As part of the "Asian model" of development, governments prevented foreign investors (and domestic residents) from moving money in and out of their countries freely. These restrictions helped prevent damaging swings in exchange rates; they also kept out American financial firms, which were eager to expand in Asia. Beginning in the early nineteen-nineties, the I.M.F. and the Treasury Department encouraged the Asians to remove the restriction on capital movements. Stiglitz viewed this policy as an unnecessary sop to Wall Street, but the Treasury Department overruled his objections. By the middle of the nineteen-nineties, South Korea, Thailand, and most other Asian countries had heeded Washington's advice and abolished controls on money flows. The result was a speculative boom, with foreign capital pouring into risky investments. For a while, the region seemed to be growing even faster than usual. But, once the Thai crisis erupted, overseas investors pulled out their money en masse, causing financial markets to collapse.
The I.M.F. made the downturn worse by ordering the stricken countries to raise interest rates and balance their budgets in order to restore the confidence of investors. These austerity policies had been designed for profligate countries in Latin America, which ran big budget deficits and printed too much money. Most of the Asian countries, by contrast, had balanced budgets, or even surpluses, when the crisis struck. The fact that monetary policy was being tightened during a recession only spooked investors more, and the conflagration spread to other countries, including Malaysia and Indonesia. Suharto's government was forced to cut food and fuel subsidies in order to meet the I.M.F.'s fiscal targets, and the subsequent riots ended up bringing down the dictator. Mahathir bin Mohamad, the Malaysian Prime Minister, managed to escape Suharto's fate only by ignoring the I.M.F.'s advice. In the face of bitter opposition from Washington, he introduced laws that made it difficult for Malaysians and foreign investors to send their money abroad. Far from destroying the Malaysian economy, as some free-market economists had predicted, these "capital controls" allowed the country to recover more quickly than most of its neighbors.
The Asian financial crisis never came any closer to most Americans than the business pages. Yet it was so severe that some people in the region concluded that the I.M.F. and the American government had set out deliberately to weaken a potential economic rival. Stiglitz doesn't go that far, but his judgment is almost as damning: "The I.M.F. was not participating in a conspiracy, but it was reflecting the interests and ideology of the Western financial community."
Is Stiglitz overstating the case against the I.M.F. here? The proponents of shock therapy, such as the Harvard economist Andrei Shleifer, who advised the Russian government during the mid-nineteen-nineties, argued that moving rapidly was the only way to prevent a Communist resurgence, and that the policy wasn't enforced vigorously enough. Instead of consistently promoting radical change, Yeltsin vacillated, one moment supporting reformers like Anatoly Chubais, the next moment backing conservatives like Viktor Chernomyrdin. Whatever the merits of such political considerations, though, the strictly economic case for the shock therapy is underwhelming. Indeed, there is now a consensus among economists that it is a mistake to try to create a market economy without first developing the institutions necessary for capitalism to function properly, such as enforceable laws and a working tax system. Under Putin, the Russian government is now concentrating on building just that sort of infrastructure, and the results are encouraging. Even the I.M.F. has come to acknowledge the wisdom of this strategy; almost everyone agrees that there is no shortcut to building a modern economy.
Stiglitz commends the gradual approach that China and Poland have taken toward liberalizing their economies. In Poland, one of the best-performing economies in Eastern Europe in recent years, the government rejected a key element of the Washington Consensus: rapid privatization. Instead of rushing to sell off state enterprises, the Poles concentrated on creating a modern legal system and a social safety net. Only then did they allow private investors to take over banks and the like. In China, too, the government left most of the big state-owned firms in place, but it created new firms alongside them by allowing villages and towns to set up their own enterprises, often in partnership with foreign companies. During the nineteen-nineties, China's G.D.P. grew at an average annual rate of about ten per cent, and its poverty rate dropped dramatically. "The contrast between what happened in China and what has happened in countries like Russia, which bowed to I.M.F. ideology, could not be starker," Stiglitz writes. "In case after case, it seemed that China, a newcomer to market economies, was more sensitive to the incentive effects of its policy decisions than the I.M.F. was to its."
All of this raises the inevitable question of how much of the book is score-settling. It will not escape I.M.F. officials that Stiglitz is overly reluctant to criticize the governments of developing countries for making bad policies, which have done at least as much as the I.M.F. to keep poor people poor. And he surely understates the difficulties facing the I.M.F. when it goes into a country where the stock market and the currency are both plummeting. What's more, I.M.F.-led bailouts can sometimes work, as they did in Mexico.
Still, there is no disputing Stiglitz and Soros's central point that global capitalism has outgrown its institutional framework. Both authors suggest reforms that might go some way toward remedying this situation. First and foremost, they advocate restructuring the international institutions, so that they are more democratic and effective. The I.M.F.'s voting structure dates back decades and makes no sense—the Netherlands has about as many votes as China has. Stiglitz also recommends improving banking supervision, changing the international bankruptcy laws, reducing the number of I.M.F. bailouts, and increasing the amount of aid and debt relief that developing countries receive, especially those in Africa. Soros, for his part, thinks international aid should be increased and that the World Trade Organization ought to take more account of issues like workers' rights, health and safety, and the environment.
One can debate the particulars of reform but not the need for it. "Without reform, the backlash that has already started will mount and discontent with globalization will grow," Stiglitz writes. "This will be a tragedy for all of us, and especially for the billions who might otherwise have benefited." ♦


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Jacksonville State's unprecedented Football Championship Subdivision run ended on a red field Saturday. The Gamecocks lost 35-24 to Eastern Washington in the quarterfinals to finish 11-4 after scoring their first two playoff victories in the school's post-Division II era.
Now, first-year coach Bill Clark begins the work of building on what he has delivered.
Auburn (12-1) returns to practice Monday to prepare for the VIZIO Bowl Championship Series final showdown with Florida State. The game is set for Jan. 6 in Pasadena.
Meanwhile, Texas' coaching search begins, with both BCS final coaches being mentioned as possible targets. Who's ready for the next round of wild speculation, less than two weeks after Gus Malzahn agreed to a new deal with Auburn?
Alabama (11-1) gets back to practice Tuesday, the Crimson Tide's All-State Sugar Bowl clash with Oklahoma set for Jan. 2 in New Orleans.
This comes after a week of wild speculation linking Nick Saban to Texas, culminating in his agreeing to a new, long-term deal with Alabama.
JSU: What was, could be
The Gamecocks went to Eastern Washington having already made history in their FCS era, and the scary part? They could have made more.
JSU wasn't out of its depth, playing the No. 3 national seed on the road in the quarterfinals. Far from it.
The Gamecocks matched Eastern Washington score-for-score in the first half and made defensive adjustments in the second that left anyone watching on ESPN3 to wonder what could have been, had quarterback Eli Jenkins and running back DeMarcus James not gotten hurt.
That's what Clark can take forward. JSU will come out of this season with a new confidence in what can be, because the Gamecocks know that more could have been.
JSU athletics director Warren Koegel spoke this past week about how nice it would be to see 24,000 fans fill JSU Stadium someday soon. One year under Clark has given JSU fans more reason than they've had since the school left Division II in 1992.
Alabama: Hooked 'Horns again
Texas' football program hasn't been the same since Alabama beat the Longhorns for the national title in Pasadena four years ago. With the events of this past week, Alabama handed Texas another beating.
Based on last week's "sources" reports out of Texas, there must have been a high degree of delusion among the school's supporters about luring Saban from Alabama. Delusions would appear to have gone up the fractured command chain.
What we know is that Saban and Alabama have agreed on a contract extension that will pay him nearly $7 million per year through 2020. We know that because of Friday's official announcement of such.
We know that Texas coach Mack Brown announced his pending resignation, effective after the Alamo Bowl, a day after Alabama announced its agreement with Saban. That had to feel good for Brown, who endured months of whispers then shouts that Saban was mere a truck load of money away from taking his job.
We also know that Saban has since said that going to Texas was never a consideration or conversation.
It must feel chilly in Texas --- like when Colt McCoy left that BCS final against Alabama with a shoulder injury in the Longhorns' first possession.
Auburn: Distractions?
If talk of Texas' coaching search becomes a distraction during Auburn's preparations for the BCS final, then it will be an equal-opportunity distraction. Names bandied about include Florida State's Jimbo Fisher, as well as Malzahn.
If either coach is tempted by Texas' money, facilities and recruiting base, then Texas-sized distractions just might get them over it. Brown talked about distractions of the job at his Sunday news conference, declaring that resigning "will add 10 years to my life. Maybe 20."
If Fisher is the Saban clone that he's purported to be, then clutter isn't his thing.
Malzahn gives off a sense that anything outside of time with his coaches and players is a necessary evil, at best. It's hard to see him enjoying three shows a week for the Longhorn Network, let alone talking to traditional state media and various constituencies in Texas.
They'd all have to get used to his can-we-get-this-over face, accentuated by his time-saving answers.
Sports Columnist Joe Medley: 256-235-3576. On Twitter @jmedley_star.


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1. Smoking & Chewing Tobacco. Tobacco carries harmful effects to ones health regardless if it's smoked, chewed, or exposed through second hand smoking. Smoking can cause respiratory diseases and cancers that originate in the mouth, as well as throughout the respiratory tract. The Mayo Clinic documents 9 out of 10 lung cancer cases as the result of smoking, along with other respiratory conditions like emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
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Family Challenges at Christmas
Christmas offers the opportunity for time with those we love.? It is also a time when disappointments, arguments and unfulfilled expectations see people blaming each other for 'spoiling their Christmas'.? I want to tell you something very important which, if you truly get it, will transform everything you do.
People around you may do things which are unkind, unfair or unreasonable.? Your current circumstances may be difficult.? However, these things can't affect you without your permission.? Think about this carefully.? You are in control of your responses and the extent to which you 'buy in' to others' behaviour and comments.
A way to check and see if you are not taking responsibility for yourself is ask 'Am I blaming someone or something for what is happening here?'? If you say 'yes' then you are relinquishing responsibility for your reactions to other people or other things.? You will always be trapped if you do this.
The good news is that although we can't change others, we can change ourselves and when we do, the dynamic in our interactions changes.? Then things do change.? So this Christmas, don't ask others to change – change yourself – and choose how you want to react to what is going on around you.? This will be the source of your freedom to choose how you want to live your life.


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RIP, ex-Texas QB James Street, original Wishbone Wizard and Huston's father
Horrible news this morning: Former Texas quarterback James Street, the original Wishbone Wizard, died early Monday at age 65. UPDATED: Here's James' obituary/tribute and funeral service information.
He was a terrific man, a great quarterback who was involved in one of the most famous college games ever, and instrumental in a single play — "the Peschel pass" — that still lives in Texas and national football lore. He was a wonderful father, including to former Colorado Rockies pitcher Huston Street, now with San Diego. My sympathy to James' wife, Janie, and his five sons. Here's my 2011 Post Father's Day story on Huston and James.
I was fortunate enough to get to know James when writing about the 1969 Texas-Arkansas football game, initially for a Sporting News story at the 25th anniversary of the landmark contest attended by President Nixon and Texas Congressman George Bush, and then for Horns, Hogs and Nixon Coming.
As a tribute, I'll append my introductory chapter on James, and then the passage about his most notable heroics in the Arkansas game. Yes, including his pass to Randy Peschel.
Slick and Company
It became a cliché. James Street? Winner. He wasn't big, listed charitably at five-foot-eleven, stretching the truth by at least two inches, and at 175 pounds. He wasn't startlingly fast. Even his decision-making in the wishbone wasn't perfect, but he always seemed to make it work—if not on one particular play, then eventually. As a passer, he could look like the star baseball pitcher he was in the spring, throwing a fastball through traffic. He also, occasionally, could look like a Hungarian placekicker screwing around on the side of the field. But there was just something about the man his teammates called not just "Rat," but "Slick." His shiny black hair and long sideburns were reminiscent of an Elvis Presley impersonator. And when he got talking? He was a high-energy filibuster, a boulder rolling downhill, Niagara Falls, Jim Brown on a sweep: unstoppable.
With so much emphasis placed on his "winning" qualities, some could mistakenly infer that was a way of downplaying his shortcomings as an athlete. On the contrary, he was a terrific all-around athlete. An undersized dynamo without a powerful arm, he wasn't the prototypical quarterback. It was a huge upset that he beat out Bill Bradley, one of the most highly touted recruits in 1960s college football. He did because the new offense worked so much better with the chatterbox calling—and then running—the plays. That's how it was with Street: You measured him not only by what he did himself, but by how others reacted to his presence.
He had been scrambling all his life, growing up on what passed for the wrong side of the tracks in Longview, Texas, about fifty miles from Shreveport, Louisiana. James's father, Grover, had health problems and was a paranoid schizophrenic, convinced someone was lurking behind the next tree and hoping to ruin his life. "He was pretty smart and he would come up with all these plans about how people were trying to get him," James says. Grover zealously coached his two boys, Sewell and James, building a little backstop in the backyard with a cutout of the strike zone and telling them they must hit each corner of the rectangle. "I never can remember him saying I did anything good," James says. "It was always expected of you to do good. But the reason you did good was because you were prepared. He would make you prepare."
Sewell was older, and he felt the brunt of the attention, but when James came home after pitching a no-hitter as a ten-year-old, Grover chewed him out because he couldn't remember every "out" pitch.
"What does it matter?" snapped little James. "I struck him out!"
"It doesn't matter today," his father said sharply. "But it will matter someday! Someday, it will come back to haunt you if you don't understand what you're doing!"
Grover left and returned several times. Ultimately, he said he had to go back to his native Oklahoma—alone. "The world was just trying to get him and he had to move off," James, who was about twelve, says. "I didn't understand it, and I got used to him not being there. I learned a lot from him before he left, though."
James's mother, Helen, and Grover divorced, and she started working at a department store most of the day, then on the telephone for a home products firm for a few hours, then frequently baby-sat at night. "The amazing part about her was the next morning at six-thirty, she would have breakfast cooked," James says. "So when I got up, there were eggs or pancakes. She seemingly never tired. I think I got a lot of my work ethic from her."
In junior high, James worked in the school cafeteria to earn free meals. "I didn't look at that as a bad thing because I could get all the food I wanted!" James says. "We didn't have much at home, but I didn't know we didn't have anything."
The Streets didn't have a television. James's treasured possession was his little radio, and he listened to the scratchy broadcasts of the St. Louis Cardinals games at night, dreaming of someday being in the rotation and hearing Harry Caray calling his strikeouts.
He was a running back until ninth grade, when he switched to quarterback. When Ty Bain, a new Longview High Lobos football coach, showed up, he blanched when he saw one of his quarterbacks still working in the school cafeteria. "I need you to quit working," said Bain, who had grown up poor himself. "A quarterback shouldn't be working back there in the back."
James quit, and each Monday, Bain handed Street an envelope. Inside were two one-dollar bills and two quarters. "That was fifty cents a day for my sister and me to eat on," Street says. "I thought I was rich!"
The owner of a local restaurant, Jackson's Café, also tried to help the fiery little quarterback. "Mr. Jackson said he wanted to give me some money so I could buy some clothes," James says. "I never thought I didn't have clothes. What did I need clothes for? I wouldn't take it. So they came back to me and asked if I would work weekends. I said I'd love to, and I'd work from seven in the morning until two in the afternoon on Saturday and Sunday. He always paid me cash and I might have gotten ten dollars for the weekend. It seemed like a million at the time."
James's older brother, Sewell, by then was playing minor-league baseball, and James was hoping to do the same thing. College? No way could the family afford it, and he didn't dream anyone would offer him a scholarship.
The area star was Loyd Phillips, who had gone off to star at Arkansas. His younger brother, Terry Don, was a year ahead of James. The Phillips brothers were big enough to attract the attention of the college coaches and good enough to keep it; coaches had to look beyond Street's size—to his heart and his competitiveness.
As a junior at Longview High in the spring of 1965, Street was pitching at Texarkana when an errant between-innings toss by a teammate nailed him in the face. Blood poured from his nose, coming in intermittent floods. All Street did was take a towel to the mound and put it down by the resin bag.
Terry Don Phillips and the rest of Street's teammates were incredulous. Years later, Street and Phillips still have a friendly disagreement over that incident.
"He should remember it," Street says. "He threw the ball that nailed me!"
Responds Phillips: "I know he thinks that, but I'm innocent! The point is, he got hit right in the nose and the cheekbone and he's bleeding all over. I mean, all over. He had a towel, his nose is bleeding, and he'd wipe off his nose between pitches and go right on. He was just a great, great competitor."
When James was a senior at Longview, Terry Don was an Arkansas freshman.
With the Phillips boys gone, the Longview Lobos didn't have much talent around the holdover quarterback. As his senior season began, the scrambling Street was regarded as one of the top quarterbacks in East Texas, but a marginal college prospect. Loyd and Terry Don tried to convince the Arkansas coaching staff to recruit him, but even Street still was thinking baseball first and was surprised when Southwest Conference football coaches started contacting him during the Lobos' 5–5 season. He weighed 155 pounds. He was going to play baseball, and when a Texas A&M coach showed up at Longview High and asked him if he would play football for the Aggies, Street responded: "Naw, I don't want to cut my hair off."
Oklahoma State and Texas Tech also contacted him, and he started to figure out that college was a bona fide alternative to signing a pro baseball contract right out of high school. Texas -— the Longhorns! -— asked him to make a visit to Austin. It wasn't that Street lacked confidence; he just didn't picture himself as a football player.
Street also was considering another school—the University of Arkansas.
The Phillipses' lobbying efforts finally worked: The Razorback staff contacted Street, and then Frank Broyles called. It wasn't an all-out blitz, and it might have been a case of Broyles getting Loyd Phillips—one of the top players in the country—off his back, but Broyles asked James to add the Razorbacks to his list of possibilities. "You have some friends here, James," Broyles said, "and we wish you'd consider becoming a Razorback."
The thought was comforting: He could rejoin the big Phillips boys, his pals, in Fayetteville.
James sat down for a chat with his surrogate father, Mr. Jackson, at the café. Street said he was leaning toward going to Arkansas, or at least making an official visit there.
"What about baseball?" Jackson asked. "Isn't baseball what you want to do?"
Texas's baseball program, then still under longtime coach Bibb Falk, was much higher-profile than the one at Arkansas. Jackson's daughter was a UofA student, but he told Street that Texas sounded like a better fit for a dual-sport athlete. Street went to Austin for his official tour and visited with Darrell Royal. The Texas coach challenged him, bringing up the name of the all-everything quarterback the Longhorns had landed the year before — Bill Bradley.
"I guess a lot of schools are throwing Bradley up to you," Royal said.
"Yes, sir."
"You know," Royal said slowly, "if you start running away from competition now, you'll never know if you could have played with the best or competed against the best. You'll never know that."
It was as if Royal was daring Street to keep pitching as the blood ran down his face. Street never took that recruiting visit to Arkansas, and by the time he was a senior at Texas, he was the entrenched starter, the established master of the triple option, and a cocaptain—along with halfback Ted Koy and linebacker Glen Halsell. He also was the baseball program's ace pitcher, and on baseball trips he roomed with another dual-sport player—outfielder/tight end Randy Peschel. "He just did not take defeat in anything," Peschel says. "He wouldn't accept it and wouldn't let anybody around him accept it."
When 1969 preseason practice began, Street had just returned from a summer of playing semipro baseball in Colorado with the Boulder Collegians, a team of college all-stars. The Longhorns' Press Day came after a few days of daily double practices, and Street was wearing shorts and a bandage on his leg when he went through a mass interview with reporters.
"What's that bandage for? Does it hurt?" a writer asked.
Street couldn't help himself. His mouth got going, and he couldn't stop it.
Well, as you guys know, I was in Colorado for the summer, playing baseball, and I worked as a substitute mail carrier on the side, and just the other day, a dog bit me, and now they're checking it for rabies and they're a little worried that I may go mad . . .
The writers were scribbling. As he continued, Street was starting to let saliva drip from his mouth, and he was on the verge of laughing, too.
Just kidding, fellas.
He was so adept at scraping the line of scrimmage as he ran the triple option, Street often was kicked by his linemen. That's why he often had a bandage on his leg.
Royal was in the room, and he was livid.
"Nobody likes a smart—," Royal snapped after the session.
Street resolved to follow the coach's guidelines for dealing with the press: Be polite, be classy, compliment your opponents, don't say anything controversial, and then compliment your opponents again to make sure everybody got the point.
But to James Street, life was a revival meeting, a filibuster, a soapbox. "I tell you what, I can't stress enough that James Street was such a catalyst, not only with his play, but with being in the huddle," Cotton Speyrer says.
"James was a guy you couldn't ever get to shut up," a laughing Steve Worster says. "He was a great guy, and there was just something about James Street you didn't see until you put him on the football field. He was just a winner, plain and simple. The guy obviously had talent, but he threw a pass like a wounded duck. I mean, he threw it kind of like I would. That was fine, because we didn't have to throw it very often."
Once the wishbone got rolling, in fact, the Longhorns hammered everyone.
With Street usually starting the play by extending the ball into Steve Worster's belly, and with the Texas offensive linemen making the decisions easier because they were blowing away the defensive front, Texas looked unstoppable.
Right 53 Veer Pass
When the Longhorns regained possession with 6:10 left in the Arkansas-Texas game, the Razorbacks led 14-8. Street had run 42 yards for a touchdown on the first play of the fourth quarter, and barely made it across the goal line on a counter option on the two-point conversion. By the way, a contemporary aside before I return to the excerpt: If someone claims to be from Arkansas, you can test them by saying, "Boschetti was clipped" and asking what that refers to. If they know it means most Arkansans believe Street's run should have been called back, they really are from Arkansas. Even if they're young. These things get handed down. Now back to Street's heroics…
Ted Koy ran for 1 yard, then Steve Worster gained 4 and 2 yards on consecutive carries, and the Longhorns faced fourth-and-3 from their own 43. The ball was on the left hashmark, to the same side as the Texas bench. Quickly, it was obvious that Texas wasn't going to punt.
With 4:47 remaining, Street called timeout and trotted over to the sideline to talk with Darrell Royal.
As tackle Bob McKay frequently noted, Royal did not run a one-man, one-vote democracy. But as the quarterback and captain, James Street at least had a voice in the decision-making process. As he arrived at the sideline, he knew what he would call, given the choice—another counter option, this one to the short side of the field and away from what Street by now recognized was the defensively overloaded tight-end side. It had worked on a fourth-and-2 on the Longhorns' final possession of the first half, when Street cut up for 3 yards, and this play was going to be from the same hashmark, going the same direction.
"I wanted to go strong to the wide side of the field," Street says. "I knew they would overshift to the wide side, and that would make it easier for me to get three yards the other way. All I have to do is get inside that end."
So Street lobbied Royal. "Coach, if we set the formation up, I can make three yards on the outside option!"
In the pressbox, offensive coach Emory Bellard was talking over the headset phone to Royal. Street always has presumed Bellard was arguing for an option play as well, but Bellard says that isn't true. Bellard's call was going to be a pass—a play-action delay to tight end Randy Peschel over the middle, theoretically underneath the coverage after Cotton Speyrer went deep and linebackers took the play-action fake.
Just as Broyles rarely vetoed play calls, Royal rarely overruled Bellard.
This time, he did. "No, we're going deep!" Royal said to Bellard, with Street standing there.
Royal turned to Street. "All right," he said, "tell you what we're going to run. Right 53 veer pass!"
Street was dumbfounded. In the Longhorns' parlance, the "right" was the formation call. It meant the split end — Speyrer — was to the right, and the actual strength of the formation was to the left, where Peschel lined up. The "53" meant Street would go left, faking the 53 veer running play, then dropping to pass. That, coupled with the formation, meant he had one receiver going deep—the tight end, or "TED" in Texas terminology.
Deep to 'TED'? That's just not the way the Longhorns did it. Peschel was counted on as the solid blocker and short-game receiver. Hell, he still wore his old wingback number — 40, which looked weird as hell on a tight end. Everyone knew anything deep went to the speedy Speyrer; everyone, including the Razorbacks, whose defensive scheme quite reasonably incorporated that assumption. And that was exactly why Royal called Peschel's number.
"OK," Street said, and took a couple of steps back toward the huddle. "I'm sitting here, registering, 'right 53 veer pass,'" Street says. "Randy Peschel is the only guy going out and he's going deep. I have one receiver to hit, and if this son of a (gun) doesn't work, I don't have anyone else to throw to. So I'm wondering if Coach Royal means 'left,' which means Cotton going deep. That might make more sense to me."
Street came back to Royal and ran through it one more time. "Right 53 veer pass," Street said to Royal. "We got one receiver going out, Coach, and that's 'TED'? He's going deep? Are you sure that's what you want to run?"
Defensive coach Mike Campbell heard the call and wasn't exactly brimming with confidence. Instantly, he turned and approached the members of the efense. Tom Campbell, the defensive halfback, wasn't even sure of the fourth-down circumstances. "All of a sudden my dad is standing in front of me and the other guys on the defense and saying, 'Defense, get ready! We gotta get the ball back!'"
Linebacker Scott Henderson smiles and shakes his head, remembering. "'Defense, get ready!' That's exactly what he said. So I got up."
Upstairs, Longhorns defensive backfield coach Fred Akers had the same initial reaction as Street. Could Coach Royal have the formation fouled up? "We thought he had got turned around," Akers says. "That happens, you know!"
Like Street, Akers wondered if Royal had meant the play to go to Speyrer. "I asked Mike Campbell, 'What'd he say?' He had called the veer pass to the wrong side, I thought," Akers says. "I thought, 'Oh, my God, no!' But, man, he knew what he was doing!"
Royal remembered Peschel talking about how fast the Arkansas defensive backs were coming up to play the run. And, finally, he had a gut feeling that he needed to gamble. "That was the time to put it all on the line," Royal says.
"If we had run for a first down, we'd have lost the game. We weren't moving the ball. It was one of those situations where you have to swing from the floor and hope you put a square peg in a round hole."
Street headed back to the huddle, thinking, Man, the guys aren't going to believe this one! I've got to sell it!
The Longhorns were all kneeling in a loose imitation of their round huddle, waiting through the timeout. For all the struggles the Longhorns had that afternoon, theirs was a great offensive line, and the five men up front still were thinking: Run the damn ball! Let us go after these guys!
As Street arrived at the huddle, Peschel had just gotten up and was putting on his helmet. "Peschel, don't look at me!" Street said, conspiratorially.
Peschel asked himself: What's he saying that for? But he didn't look at Street. "James's eyes were as big as saucers," guard Mike Dean says.
Street looked first at Speyrer, and kept returning his gaze to the split end through his spiel. If the Razorbacks were watching, he wanted them to think he was going over a pass route with Speyrer.
"Guys," he said, "you aren't gonna believe this call, but it's gonna work! It will work! We're gonna run right 53 veer pass, and that means you're the
only receiver, Peschel, and you're going deep!"
Memories differ on the reaction. Several players — including Peschel, center Forrest Wiegand, and tackle Bobby Wuensch — recall that Bob McKay said something along the lines of, "You gotta be (kidding) me!" McKay says that isn't true, and others — including Street and Mike Dean — back him on that. Whether McKay said it or not is almost irrelevant, as Steve Worster points out. "We all kind of looked at each other and said, just by looking, 'What?'" Worster says. "I thought it was all or nothing right there. I don't remember Bob saying anything, but I guarantee you, everybody in the huddle was thinking, 'You gotta be (kidding) me!'"
But all agree, Street took control and sold it. They won't be expecting this! It will work! (It's a good thing this was a long timeout.)
Finally, though, Street tried to leave himself a safety net. He told Peschel that if he decided he couldn't get deep, if the defensive backs didn't bite on the fake, he should cut the route short, come back, and Street would get him the ball. No matter what, we gotta get the first down! He says he had some nightmares later in which Peschel broke off the route, Street threw the ball about 25 yards over his head and had to explain that to an irate Darrell Royal.
Speyrer trotted out to the right, to his split-end position, with mixed feelings.
"Personally," Speyrer says, laughing, "I thought it should have gone to moi, if we're going to throw the ball. But then I thought it could be a great call. I thought Randy Peschel would be wide open. I'm going to run down the field, congratulate him for scoring a touchdown, the whole bit."
The Razorbacks didn't watch Street stare at Speyrer, or at least they didn't buy it. The coaches' defensive call, relayed to star linebacker Cliff Powell, was "80 short," a goal-line defense designed to stop the run.
At the start of the play, the two buddies from Longview were only a yard or so apart—James Street, taking the snap, and Terry Don Phillips, the Razorbacks' defensive tackle. In 80 short, Phillips says, his job was "to execute a goal-line charge and build a pile, and your linebackers run up and go to the football."
Powell got ready to play the Longhorns' straight triple option. "That was what we were geared for," he says.
Peschel says his first concern was getting off the line of scrimmage. Steve Birdwell still was in for Bobby Field at the "monster" spot, and he lined up
outside Peschel. Street took the snap and started the triple-option action, riding a fake to Worster to his left. Carrying out the fake, Worster leaned
forward and fell onto his knees, just short of the first-down marker.
On his first step, Peschel made a slight blocking motion at Birdwell with his left shoulder and forearm. It was as if he coiled to make the block, but didn't uncoil. The Longhorn tight end and the Razorback monster back brushed one another. As he was supposed to do in this defense, Birdwell stepped across the line of scrimmage to play the option. Peschel was off the line of scrimmage and into the pattern, heading downfield and angling slightly toward the sideline. That route was designed to give him more breathing room if the safety — Dennis Berner — came over. Peschel made the decision to go deep, even though right defensive halfback Jerry Moore hadn't significantly bought the fake and turned around to run after Peschel.
This is a crucial point, especially in light of the misconceptions that abounded later: If Peschel was on his side, Moore was encouraged to read the tight end's first move and rush up if it looked as if Peschel was blocking. And on this play, in a short-yardage defense, with the expectation that the Longhorns would run the option, it would have been understandable if Moore had sprinted up to play the run, even though it would have been a mistake.
Moore didn't make that mistake.
After Peschel's feinted block, Moore made a smart play to spot the pass soon enough to recover, turn, and run with Peschel, which didn't leave Berner as the only defender. (Nobody remembers if the Razorbacks were playing man-to-man or zone on the tight-end side on that specific play, but the way it worked out, Peschel ended up being double covered.)
"We have our defense set to defend the run," Moore says. "We've got everybody packed in there to stop it, thinking that they're going to run the ball. My read is through the tight end." Moore noticed Peschel's coiling move at Birdwell. "In watching the film, I think I did initially take a step up when he blocked down or whatever," Moore says. "But he released and I recovered and got back."
Berner also reacted quickly, angling over from the middle of the field to chase Peschel. "I just took off for the guy Street was looking at," Berner Says.
After the fake to Worster, Street dropped diagonally, taking five quick steps and setting up to throw. Jim Bertelsen threw a block on Birdwell, in case he decided to charge at Street. Terry Don Phillips and Gordon McNulty both went low and ended up on the turf, and McNulty jumped back up to reach for the pass. He didn't come close. But he wasn't worried, either. "When Street put the ball up there, I was thinking, 'He ain't got a prayer!'" McNulty Says.
Street threw the ball from the Texas 39; it wasn't a laser, and it wasn't a soft rainbow. It was an arching quasi-spiral with just the right touch, and he led Peschel slightly toward the sideline, which was crucial.
"When I first looked back, I thought, 'This is overthrown,'" Peschel says. "I just kept running and looked back again, and there it was."
By the time the ball came down, Moore was less than a step behind Peschel, a couple of feet closer to the sideline. Berner was there as well, about a halfstep back. On the run, sensing the ball was arriving, Moore reached out with his right arm, raising his hand slightly. Berner reached around Peschel's back, to the inside, with his left arm.
"Actually, I think I touched the ball with the tip of my [left] ring finger," Berner says. "Barely a touch."
For several strides, Peschel was looking over his outside shoulder. "This is what I see here, one hand from each of them," he says, crossing his own
wrists. The ball made it through the maze, into Peschel's hands.
The pass was perfect, and the play gained 43 yards. In the clutch, with the national championship on the line, with his teammates wondering what was going on, James Street put the ball exactly where he had to. If thrown shorter, or with a minuscule flattening, the pass would have been incomplete, probably knocked down by either Moore or Berner. Maybe a foot longer, it would have been incomplete. A foot more to the center of the field, Berner would have batted it down—or even gotten hit by the ball. A quarterback not known for his passing ability, with it all on the line, made an absolutely perfect pass. It was the only way it would have worked.
The catch was clutch as well. As he angled slightly toward the sideline, Peschel focused on the ball through the hands and caught it at the Arkansas 18, holding on as Berner dragged him down at the 13 and Moore fell on him.
All three slid over the sideline.
"I remember faking through the hole, and naturally being knocked down to my knees, which I always was," Steve Worster says. "I was looking at the pass and Randy making that phenomenal catch. And, yeah, I was going, 'You gotta be (kidding) me!'"
The entire play was based on the assumption the Razorbacks would be fooled, but they weren't.
"Three guys go for the ball and, give the guy credit, he makes a miraculous catch," Jerry Moore says.
Razorbacks linebacker Mike Boschetti was distraught. "I had gone back to my hook zone, and then kind of turned and followed the ball," he says. "It
sickened my stomach when he caught it. They teach you as linebackers to play the run first and then get back in your hook zone, but if you ever
commit too far, just go ahead and rush the passer because you'll never get back anyway. I've looked at the film since and there was a big opening where I could have gotten to Street. If I had actually continued on that path I could have been in his face."
Boschetti probably couldn't have gotten to Street, but that's the kind of what-if mind game the Razorbacks have been playing for years.
Back upfield after the play, Street was still standing. He noticed his buddy, Phillips, prone at his feet. He reached down and tapped Phillips, and nudged him, as if he was trying to help him up. "Come on, Terry Don," Street said. "The ball's down there! Come on, buddy!"
Phillips laughs about that. "'Come on!'" he says, shaking his head. "It was a great call, a great throw, a great catch. How many times out of ten could they execute that? That might have been the only time. But you only need to do it once."
Peschel rolled over onto his back and, while prone, flipped the ball to the official marking the spot. Berner quickly got up and trotted toward the huddle.
Moore had done a somersault, and he was a little stunned. He struggled to his feet and wobbled a bit, walking toward the center of the field to join
the other Razorbacks.
"We had the safety man and the halfback there," Frank Broyles says. "We don't know why odd things happen, but they happen in sports."
Charley Coffey, the defensive coach, doesn't fault the coverage, either. Never has, never will. "It seemed like there was something miraculous about it," Coffey says.
Royal calls it a "perfect throw and a great catch, and both of those things had to happen." And if the play—a daring gamble—hadn't worked? "Oh, man, I'd have been the biggest idiot of all time," Royal says.
The first four Longhorns to get to Peschel were offensive linemen — in quick succession, Bobby Wuensch, Forrest Wiegand, Bob McKay, and Mike Dean.
"McKay and I were like little kids let out into the schoolyard," Dean says. McKay belted Peschel and using Peschel's nickname among his teammates, said, "Nice catch, Pasquale!"
The Longhorns still were 13 yards away from the potentially game-winning touchdown. "All I know is that our sideline was celebrating, so I figure we've scored a touchdown," Tom Campbell says. "Then I realize we're only down to the 13. So I went back and sat down."
Halfback Jim Bertelsen scored two plays later, Happy Feller kicked the extra point — and the Longhorns won what still is one of the most famous college football games of all time 15-14.
The Longhorns next beat Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl, securing the national title President Nixon already had declared was theirs.
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