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...first-ever Grand Slam tournament. "I got the chills," said Capriati, who wept after slamming a backhand winner on the first match point past Hingis for the championship. Hingis, 20, had never lost to Capriati in five previous matches, but Capriati actually used her underdog status--she was seeded 12th--and newly discovered maturity to her advantage. "I thought, 'Why be nervous? She has everything to lose. Just go for it.'" In addition to winning a legion of fans, she'll take home $473,385 and leap to seventh place in this week's rankings, the first time...
...victory was so absurdly easy that "12th man" Kam Walton...
CALLING JOE CAMEL How can the tobacco industry undo the damage done to impressionable children by cartoon camels that smoke cigarettes? With antismoking cartoon characters. A study of kindergartners through 12th-graders reports that children are more likely to believe cigarette health warnings when they are accompanied by a cartoon critter. Which critters? The study tested walruses, penguins and bears...
...after a cacophonous United States Supreme Court eked out an epitaph for Gore, that Florida law gave Gore neither the time nor the infrastructure for a statewide hand count that met the constitutional requirements of a statewide presidential election, some of his lawyers still saw daylight. The 12th was a false deadline, and since the Rehnquist Five had in the name of judicial propriety returned the case for retooling, there was still a chance for a Hail Mary back in Tallahassee...
Earlier in the season, Clemente surpassed 1,000 career points. He currently stands at 1,116 points on the season. In the game, Clemente also moved past Mike Gielen '89 (1,104 points) into 12th place on the school's all-time scoring list...