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...father preys on me, but I understand why. It's a perpetual struggle, yet Agassi, who won eight Grand Slams, survives the excruciating points, and your eyes stay glued to the action. He can hit a loud smash. In case you haven't heard, at one point in his career Agassi grew quite fond of crystal meth. Still, his soft shots carry the day. Agassi describes, in exquisite detail, how he wooed Steffi Graf by cobbling together a birthday card out of two airplane menus and raffia coiled around a champagne bottle. All together now: awwww...
Toward the end of his career, a tennis commentator said Agassi went from "punk to paragon." Agassi, who has dedicated his post-tennis life to expanding the Las Vegas charter school he founded, hated that handle. He insists the Agassi of the mullet and acid-washed jeans wasn't a punk; he was just lost. And "paragon" is simply hyperbole. Agassi's evolution, however, is still striking. So we'll offer him a more fitting, if less catchy, epithet: from anguished soul to outstanding author...
...students.” But Schoeck said he was aware of only one male student who badly cut his foot after removing his high heels.Schoeck described Friday’s crowd as one of the “top five” worst behaved he has experienced in his career as a bar manager. According to Schoeck, “only 40 or 50” of attendees were rowdy...
...There is a just a massive effort underway to rebrand Bob McDonnell, and his whole legislative career speaks otherwise. The voters have a right to know who these candidates really are." - Former Virginia delegate Barnie K. Day, who supports Deeds, on McDonnell's conservative record.(Washington Post...
...burly mayor is unlikely to have felt many qualms about confronting muggers. A former schoolmate, talking to Johnson's biographer, described his subject as an "absolute berserker" on Eton's rugby fields. Johnson's career, both in journalism and in politics, has been marked by a fearlessness that not infrequently borders on the suicidally reckless. He rarely keeps to agreed party lines, recently incurring the wrath of Conservative leader David Cameron by going dramatically off-message on the party's European Union policy last month, provoking a Cameron aide to send him a Mafia-style text message: "La vendetta...