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...attendants used to come in and say, 'Mr. Becker, five minutes,'" says Nick Bollettieri, who coached him in 1994 and '95. "He was in his jogging clothes, didn't pay attention. 'Mr. Becker, four minutes.' He would take the clothes off, fold them piece by piece. Go into the bathroom. 'Mr. Becker, it's time.' He would come out, slowly put on his tennis clothes. 'Mr. Becker, it's time.' But he wouldn't pay attention, and no referee said a word. They were scared shitless...
...SEVEN MIRRORS STAND WAITING ON THE STAGE. Becker takes his position before them, and the photographer starts snapping, belting out commands to the assistants who stand behind each mirror, adjusting. "No. 4, you're making him look like a giant," the photographer says...
...giant," Becker says, and whether he is being serious is unclear. As a player, he assumed regal prerogatives, took massages during bathroom breaks, set up to receive serve only when he was good and ready. Of Wimbledon, he'd say, "This is where I live." Before each match that's how he would...
...There are signs - a telltale use of the third person, a low-grade paranoia - that Becker's sense of his own importance has not diminished with the end of his career. If anything, two months on the front pages of German newspapers have convinced him that he still takes up much space in the public imagination, his travails a delight for the masses. "Finally: a little payback," he says. "Becker was the winner for so long. 'The best in tennis with the best-looking wife, beautiful kids, money, he's smart - whatever he touches is gold!' In Germany they thought...
...meeting of Western Hemisphere environmental ministers with no policy to advocate. The former New Jersey Governor, considered a moderate, called climate change "a credibility issue'' in a March 6 memo to Bush. Now she looks like a wounded dove in an Administration where the hawks appear ascendant. Says Dan Becker of the Sierra Club, a venerable American conservation group: "People are stunned with how quickly the coal and oil industries got what they wanted...