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...sort of cakewalk—the co-captain will face Baylor’s Benedikt Dorsch, the nation’s top player, in the singles competition at 12 p.m. When that match is over, Chu and Kumar will take on Georgia’s top-seeded Antonio Ruiz and Alex Isner...
...fire alarm has gone off in councilman Antonio Villaraigosa's office in city hall, and the emergency strobe light is flashing, but he isn't budging. Two days after winning the Los Angeles mayoral election, Villaraigosa has business to do. It is 6 p.m., and he has been up since 3 a.m. In the past two hours alone, his assistant tells him, he has received 47 phone messages. A secretary calls security to find out if the building needs to be evacuated. But Villaraigosa, 52, once described by a fellow Democrat as having as much energy as "a hummingbird...
Villaraigosa is candid about the mistakes he has made. "My whole life has been one of falling down and getting up again," he says. Born Antonio Villar (he added his wife's surname Raigosa when he married), he grew up watching his father beat his mother and then took his own anger onto the streets, getting into fights. He was kicked out of one school, dropped out of another, and probably would never have graduated if not for Herman Katz, a teacher at Roosevelt High, who plucked him from a remedial English class and propelled him on to graduate from...
...predicting an early breakthrough. "There is good disposition on eta's part [to negotiate]", insists Batasuna's Otegi. "But we are still in the very preliminary stages." And violence could still erupt. "eta is still capable of attacking and will do so whenever it can," Interior Minister José Antonio Alonso said. Keep those communication channels open...
...Schibsted's giveaway - is aimed at the vast majority of Spaniards who don't pay for a daily paper. "If a reader sees something that really interests him and he wants to know more, then he can pay for a paper for more in-depth coverage," insists José Antonio Martínez Soler, director general of 20 Minutos in Spain. The publication now ranks as one of the country's most widely circulated papers. At least for now, the Spanish market seems capable of supporting both giveaways and paid-for papers. But free sheets poaching readers from traditional titles...