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Hewitt doubters cite the precedent of the nuggetty Chinese-American Michael Chang. At the French Open in 1989, at the age of 17, Chang became the youngest man to win a grand slam title. But though he spent seven years in the Top 10 and retired only last August, he never won another one. Chang's game was built on the same pillars as Hewitt's: reliable, though not explosive, groundstrokes, a terrier's speed and tons of grit. Chang's problem - and for a while last year it looked like Hewitt's problem, too - was that grinding out matches...
...tennis really changed so much that it can no longer accommodate players of all shapes and styles? "Lleyton's a more complete player than Chang was," argues John Alexander, who suspects weariness and injuries were what hurt the Australian, along with a playing style that became too conservative - a flaw Hewitt seems to have corrected. "People tend to talk about power - about serving and forehands - and they're the fashionable things to talk about," says Hewitt's childhood coach, Peter Smith. "I always felt that Lleyton had qualities that others didn't notice, subtle qualities they couldn't measure...
...government and continues to claim that Taiwan is a renegade province of mainland China. Can successful negotiations take place with a knife pressed to our throat? The Taiwanese have no intention of becoming citizens of China under a communist government that does not respect basic human dignity. Chi-Chang K. Shieh Tainan, Taiwan...
...bracing itself for what lies ahead. At best, analysts in Taipei claim, Bush's comments were merely rhetoric to give Wen something substantial to take home to appease the hard-liners in China's military who are baying for a fight with Taiwan. At worst, says Parris Chang, a co-chairman of Taiwan's parliament's foreign relations committee, it's the first step towards a significant U.S. policy switch on Taiwan. "We have to wait and see if the substance changes," says Chang. "Of course, we hope this is rhetoric and nothing else. There is a lot at stake...
...propelled him quickly up the show-biz ranks, winning him parts as an actor and, eventually, the chance to direct. He broke out as the director of 1982's Aces Go Places, a martial-arts spy spoof revolving around a diamond heist. Starring Karl Maka, Sam Hui and Sylvia Chang, the film was at the time the highest-grossing Hong Kong movie ever. (At today's ticket prices, Aces would have earned about $13 million, which is nearly double the take of Shaolin Soccer, the reigning Hong Kong box-office champ.) Still, that early success never went to Tsang...