To back up a little for context, Woods suffered one of the worst bits of luck in the tournament Friday when his first approach shot into 15, perfectly struck, hit the flagstick and bounded back into the green-fronting lake.

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Malouda found Kalou in the box and although the cross struck Bolton defender Knight it fell perfectly for the Frenchman, who had only to hammer into a largely unguarded net.

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It seemed a perfectly reasonable point to her - and it suddenly struck me that if it seemed reasonable to someone who was well-educated and at least semi-literate in sport, then maybe there were millions of others watching and listening that day who had been equally perplexed by Australia's apparent carelessness.

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Sometimes, when Cuca had learned to play a whole piece, the maid and the cook would come to listen, too, and the lawyer, filled with pride, would hear them murmur words of praise, which struck him at first as excessive, but then, on reflection, seemed perfectly apt.

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