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On Sunday, with everything at stake, after a magnificent comeback on the front nine, followed by a perfect drive and a laser-guided six-iron from 207 yards out to the 15th green, a pair of strokes that recalled the steel-nerved best of Woods's triumphs at Augusta National, the ball rolled gently around the lip on the right-hand edge of the hole, oblivious to the consequences of its errant path.

Tiger Woods goes into new era as same old charmless man 2011

With a bit of patience and good humor, there's something for everyone in the book—the decapitation of a drunk merchant by his cousin, the hero Nephi, in pursuit of an ancient copy of the Hebrew Bible; a tender recapitulation of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount; the immolation of a steel-nerved prophet by a Don Corleone-style king; and a conversion trance so deep that observers thought the convert had begun to decompose.

Five Best: Samuel Morris Brown Samuel Morris Brown 2012

CNN provided me with an advance copy of the film and helped arrange a discussion with the steel-nerved filmmaker, Norwegian journalist Paul Refsdal, who risked his life embedding himself in a Taliban fighting unit in Kunar province -- a move supposedly blessed by Taliban leadership.

Michael Hughes: Taliban Exposed by Embedded Journalist in Riveting CNN Documentary Michael Hughes 2010

CNN provided me with an advance copy of the film and helped arrange a discussion with the steel-nerved filmmaker, Norwegian journalist Paul Refsdal, who risked his life embedding himself in a Taliban fighting unit in Kunar province -- a move supposedly blessed by Taliban leadership.

Michael Hughes: Taliban Exposed by Embedded Journalist in Riveting CNN Documentary Michael Hughes 2010

CNN provided me with an advance copy of the film and helped arrange a discussion with the steel-nerved filmmaker, Norwegian journalist Paul Refsdal, who risked his life embedding himself in a Taliban fighting unit in Kunar province -- a move supposedly blessed by Taliban leadership.

Michael Hughes: Taliban Exposed by Embedded Journalist in Riveting CNN Documentary Michael Hughes 2010

CNN provided me with an advance copy of the film and helped arrange a discussion with the steel-nerved filmmaker, Norwegian journalist Paul Refsdal, who risked his life embedding himself in a Taliban fighting unit in Kunar province -- a move supposedly blessed by Taliban leadership.

Michael Hughes: Taliban Exposed by Embedded Journalist in Riveting CNN Documentary Michael Hughes 2010

CNN provided me with an advance copy of the film and helped arrange a discussion with the steel-nerved filmmaker, Norwegian journalist Paul Refsdal, who risked his life embedding himself in a Taliban fighting unit in Kunar province -- a move supposedly blessed by Taliban leadership.

Michael Hughes: Taliban Exposed by Embedded Journalist in Riveting CNN Documentary Michael Hughes 2010

CNN provided me with an advance copy of the film and helped arrange a discussion with the steel-nerved filmmaker, Norwegian journalist Paul Refsdal, who risked his life embedding himself in a Taliban fighting unit in Kunar province -- a move supposedly blessed by Taliban leadership.

Michael Hughes: Taliban Exposed by Embedded Journalist in Riveting CNN Documentary Michael Hughes 2010

Relief pitchers — make that steel-nerved closers — have to be perfect to succeed.

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Reggie Miller is still the steel-nerved assassin you want taking the last shot of a big game.

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