Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing I've noticed about Seles is that she basically excises the two-and-a- half-year layoff after the stabbing from her age. She doesn't consider herself a tour veteran and sees herself more in the category of 22-year old Lindsay Davenport, as a player who is getting closer and closer to her peak...
...started, he told the press that his daughters would definitely play each other in the finals. (He turned out to be half right.) "It's not that there aren't talented players here," said Williams in reference to the likes of Monica Seles, Martina Hingis and Wimbledon champion Lindsay Davenport. "It's just that my girls are better than they are." Yet when both girls made the semis, he smiled without gloating...
...history that seems quaint in the age of Jesse Ventura and Warren Beatty. The morning before last week's Iowa straw poll--which passes for a historic event at this infant stage of the presidential race--Rove's client George W. Bush spoke to supporters at a restaurant in Davenport while Rove lurked in the background, a cellular phone in one hand and a massive biography of Benjamin Disraeli in the other. What could Disraeli, the great 19th century British Prime Minister, possibly tell us about Iowa? For Rove, that's easy. Disraeli was a Tory who championed the common...
...days last week, Alexandra Stevenson, an 18-year-old from San Diego, reminded us of the great things in sport. Before she was defeated by Lindsay Davenport in the semifinals at Wimbledon, she had become the first woman ever to advance to that point from the qualifying rounds. The "quallies," as they are known, are Grand Slam tennis' low-rent district, in which players uninvited to the world's most prestigious tournament slog through sparsely attended matches in the hope of winning their way onto Centre Court. The talent and moxie it takes to advance through the quallies and into...
...shape. To its credit, Chicago has poured $50 million a year into programs that directly target retainees. But that money could just as well be spent on things like smaller classes, individual tutoring and improved teacher training without also flunking massive numbers. "Retaining students," Chicago education researcher Suzanne Davenport says, "is a blame-the-victim solution." But it will last as long as politicians continue to believe they need to punish kids like Lashawnda Walker in order to save them...