It's slick cam out here this morning, my father said, using the waterman's phrase for totally calm.

His hair, gray as the underwing of the owl whose note he forged, straggled in uncut disarray from under the drooping rim of a battered and weatherworn hat.

I've always said right from day dot that New Zealand and Perth are going to be the teams to beat, because they have been there and done that.

It's unclear which side will win the latest face-off between the President and Congress.