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...Also, naming a running mate in the glare of a convention can be risky, as George H.W. Bush learned when he introduced a bouncingly boyish Dan Quayle to skeptical reviews during the 1988 Republican convention in New Orleans. It's probably no coincidence that after that experience, G.O.P. candidates joined the Democrats in rolling out their partners in advance...
...basketball is well known. "I could get to the rim on anybody," he told HBO's Bryant Gumbel of his high school hoops days. He could not even play golf for fun, taking lessons to lower his handicap after a few poor performances. "Barack hates to lose," says Dan Shomon, an old Chicago political aide...
...feature films. But that's where the Blues Brothers, the Coneheads, Stuart Smalley, Pat, Mary Katherine Gallagher and the Roxbury guys went, not always justifying their films' running time. Leaving SNL for movies means you can't go back, which deprives the show of some brilliant sketch talent - Dan Aykroyd, Joe Piscopo, Martin Short, Molly Shannon, Dinitra Vance, the irreplaceable Phil Hartman - and consigns those actors to movies and TV shows that don't show them off to their best advantage...
Ivanovic caught a crucial break when a Serbian tennis instructor touted her to one of his clients, a Swiss businessman named Dan Holzmann. Intrigued, Holzmann invited Ivanovic and her mother to his home in Basel, the Swiss city that produced Roger Federer. "We all fell in love with each other," Holzmann says. He made a bet: he would cover Ivanovic's expenses, praying that she could repay him down the line. He hired a coach and paid for Ivanovic's training in Switzerland. Holzmann's bill: $500,000. As soon as Ivanovic signed a four-year, multimillion-dollar deal with...
...little effect. The war in Iraq has taken the lion's share of American resources, and other Western nations are reluctant to invest more troops. "Afghanistan is half again bigger than Iraq, and it has a population estimated to be 3 to 5 million more than Iraq," says General Dan McNeil, a former ISAF commander. McNeil points out that there are only 65,000 international troops in Afghanistan, compared with nearly double that number in Iraq. The effort in Afghanistan, he says, "needs more flying machines, more maneuver units and more intelligence...