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Much has changed in tennis in half a century. And some things haven't. What's the biggest change? Power. As a guest at last year's Wimbledon Championships, Ashley Cooper noted the path of the men's serves from his premium seat. When an ace was delivered down the middle of the court, he says, the ball would still be climbing when it crashed into the backboard. "In my time," he says, "a serve that reached the backboard on the first bounce would draw a gasp from the crowd." The biggest server in Cooper's day was the American...
...board of Tennis Australia, which for the moment is losing the battle to make Australia a force in world tennis again. Cooper was once among a handful of local men in the world's Top 10. At this year's Open, starting Jan. 15 on the Rebound Ace courts of Melbourne Park, the only seeded Australian in the men's draw is Lleyton Hewitt, who's also the only Australian ranked in the Top 100. Cooper is cautiously enthusiastic about two or three 14-year-old prospects, "but for some time now our players have struggled to make the move...
...spirit of that quote that Berlin's the Kennedys, the first museum of its kind outside the U.S., was recently opened. It displays original and vintage Kennedy-clan photos, including familiar images and some previously unseen; film footage of his visit and seemingly random artifacts - from Ace bandages the President is supposed to have worn to his plastic comb. The museum is operated by Camera Work, a local photo company whose owners are ardent collectors of Kennedy memorabilia. Curator Andreas Etges, who also teaches history at Berlin's Free University, says the museum seeks to underscore how the Kennedys were...
...year history, Harvard has never had a female president. Across America, only 9 percent of presidents at private doctoral-granting universities are currently women, according to a 2001 survey by the American Council on Education (ACE), a D.C.-based association of higher education institutions...
...Ford Motor Company executive pored over scholarly research on curriculum reform, borrowed ideas from private schools with strong college preparatory curricula and International Baccalaureate programs that infuse instruction with a global perspective. The panel also studied the education policies in countries such as Singapore, whose students routinely ace international proficiency exams. And the group consulted education chiefs from states that were early adopters of tougher standards, including Indiana, Oregon and Arkansas-all of which require four years of English and at least three years of math and science...