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Sampras torched Agassi and the rest of the field on Wimbledon's grass. And he has since beaten Agassi twice on hard courts, but the matches were close enough to have rekindled new interest in the Great 1990s Tennis Rivalry (That Didn't Happen). "It's good for tennis in America to have us two going at it like we've been the past couple of months," said Sampras after their third dance. "I feel a certain buzz with the rivalry kind of kicking...
...second, neither Maine nor Vermont is in the Ivy League. Thus, even if (as is probably likely) the Crimson get beaten by one of those solid programs, it will be of little consequence...
Just as you're getting the hang of this backing and forthing between two disembodied heads, here comes another jump cut, and a third face looms large on your screen. This one, unlike the other two, looks jowly and weather-beaten and could use a shave. What does this face have to do with the game, if indeed a game is still going on? And then the truth dawns: you are being shown the manager of one of the two teams, sitting presumably in one of the two dugouts. You are, in short, watching the manager watch the field...
...will help them challenge the complacency over AIDS in recent years. "The slowing of the decline in AIDS deaths is a reminder that the message of prevention needs to be reaffirmed," says TIME science correspondent Janice Horowitz. "The drug breakthroughs created a lot of optimism that AIDS could be beaten, and that was underscored by drug company ads depicting people with HIV climbing mountains and so on, apparently unaffected by their infection. But the drug regimen to fight the disease is far from easy, and even then the virus keeps finding ways of outsmarting the drugs...
...potter's wheel sits still now, covered by cobwebs, in the basement. And Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, 48, the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, has emerged as the most promising of the next wave of political Kennedys. Although she is the only Kennedy ever to lose an election--she was beaten in a congressional race in 1986--she has since been elected twice statewide. And after five years in the job, where she has focused on fighting crime and boosting economic development, she is preparing to run for Governor in 2002. Her ambitions still reach beyond the state line...