One from the past that was pitch perfect was the Telegraph running a story on how the US had plans to invade Canada in 1940.
But for Mourinho, the past ten days are the perfect microcosm for his brilliant, but often unpredictable coaching career.
He snatched the ball and slid his penalty past Helton to provide the perfect finale to a wonderful night for Wenger's side.
Senior editor Richard Nalley explains Charleston's singular yin-yang in the article "Past Perfect: Charleston, South Carolina".
In sum, the past for which Americans pine was far from perfect, and probably not even preferable to the America of today.
As human behavior and weather cycles have not changed much for hundreds of years, the odds of a continuation of past trends are a good, but not perfect, guide to the future.
Because of what has happened over the past year or so, more enlightened organizations see that it makes perfect sense to reinvent the way they manage themselves.
Adding to the stress is the complexity of the grammar, especially the far-from-perfect spelling system hellish past tense riddled with irregularities.
With the benefit of a perfect memory of student's past responses, a computer lesson should also be able to identify some of these patterns and offer up novel challenges at the right time.
Smeltz, the former Mansfield, AFC Wimbledon and Halifax striker, headed wide from a tempting Tony Lockhead cross before he set up an unlikely equaliser, delivering a perfect ball from the left for Reid to head past Mucha.
Thompson redirected Robert Garrett's powerful free-kick past Newry keeper Nathan Morley-Hillen to give the hosts the perfect start.
Fabregas' perfect ball found Silva inside the area, who fired past Akinfeev to start the fiesta for the Spanish fans.
But Ryan Orbuch, who I met this past spring, has delivered on his promise to perfect the to-do app, and it launches today.
Xabi Alonso's quick free-kick found Aurelio, and Crouch soared to meet his perfect cross to send a brilliant header high past the diving Jens Lehmann.
There was nothing fortunate about the brilliant finish from Arshavin that put Arsenal ahead eight minutes later, taking a perfect first touch before lashing a finish high past the motionless Reina.
Sam Ricketts raced down the right wing and provided a perfect cross for Folan to head powerfully past Lee.
Tunisia, who forced a crucial draw in Nigeria in the previous round of matches, made a perfect start when Jomaa heading past goalkeeper Willis Ochieng with barely a minute played.
He has a solo -- or a harmony part, or a lead vocal, or a single perfect guitar lick -- in all the important chapters of the past 50 years.
The full-back jinked past two defenders and drew in a third before timing a perfect pass for winger Ashton to touch down in front of the posts from 30m.
Roy Hodgson's side were on top in the first half and their pressure told when Steven Gerrard sent an inch-perfect cross into the box for Carroll to plant a trademark bullet header past Andreas Isaksson.
But Cole was to turn from hero to villain very shortly as his back pass from the halfway line turned into a perfect through ball for international teammate Defoe who lashed past Green for his sixth goal in four games this season for club and country.
It has been building for the past few years and will most likely herald its full arrival in 2013: a perfect storm of out-dated organizational practices, new mindsets about what really adds value to business performance and the maturation of social, mobile and cloud technologies that enable the transformation.
The perfect artificial smoothness becomes a comment on how time has assaulted the creations of the past, even if the original sculpture started out as smooth white stone.
It's the perfect marriage of joy and sorrow, and one of the most memorable collections of songs from the past year.
Ronaldo gave Real Madrid the perfect start, rising the highest as he has done so many times before and sending a header past Courtois from Mesut Ozil's corner.
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