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...smack more winners than Federer. But trying to outshoot the game's most graceful shooter is like trying to out-jump Michael Jordan in his prime. It just won't happen. "The one common thread running through his losses is that all those guys play spectacular defense," notes Jim Courier, a former top-ranked player in the world. "What would be winners against most players aren't, and that can frustrate Roger." Nadal, no. 3 ranked Novak Djokovic of Serbia, and Argentine Guillermo Canas, who have all recently beaten Federer, can catch up to his trickiest shots. Canas has ousted...
...kingpins are beginning to win reduced sentences. "There was a mythology about who is serving these sentences," said Brennan, who was a homicide prosecutor during the height of the city's crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. "It was the image of a woman forced to be a drug courier. But when we looked at those applying to change their sentences, there were only two women: one who supervised the shipment of 155 kilos of cocaine and the other had more than a pound of cocaine in her apartment...
...thought to be around 400,000 Russians in Britain - support the British government's moves to keep up the pressure over his case. "Nobody wants there to be visa restrictions or any impact on business," says Natasha Chouvaeva, the editor of Britain's Russian-language newspaper, the Russian London Courier. "Confrontation is not an option." But neither, she adds, "is looking the other way. It is in the interests of the Russian community that [Litvinenko's murder] is solved. If we do look away, how many others will...
...Rarely have I greeted a courier with such alacrity. Unrolled, the painting was little short of a miracle. The Da Fen artist had caught not just the colors and De Chirico's subtle shading, but the entire mood of the work. My Enigma had arrived...
According to Roll, the recent trip to the expo in Germany was typical: a courier delivered trunks containing the manuscripts to the Lame Duck booth in Hamburg, and at the end of the weekend, the books were taken down from display, repacked, picked up by the courier, and shipped back to Cambridge...