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...holding up. He is outspending Hutchinson 2 to 1; President Bush stopped by last month and added $300,000 to his coffers. And Nussle can do things for Iowans that Hutchinson can't. As chairman of the House Budget Committee, he recently brought the Speaker of the House to Davenport to sign off on a new bridge across the Mississippi. And he promised to raise Medicare reimbursement by $123 million over the next three years...
...wonder John McEnroe likes him. Hewitt could be "the player the men's game has been searching for," McEnroe wrote recently. It had better find someone, fast. The women's game, which features the charismatic, hard-hitting Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, plus Jennifer Capriati, Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis, among others, has clearly captured the public's imagination. The men's game has plenty of terrific players, like Marat Safin and Tim Henman, and promising Americans, like Andy Roddick and James Blake. But men's tennis is in a personality slump and needs a superstar with game and gumption...
...Redemption Wunderkind-who-lost-her-way Jennifer Capriati made a spectacular comeback by outstroking Martina Hingis and Kim Clijsters to take the Australian and French Opens and reached No. 1 in the world rankings for three weeks. Despite Lindsay Davenport's lastminute reclaiming of the ace spot, the International Tennis Federation named Capriati 2001 world champion, alongside Australian superstar Lleyton Hewitt. 3. Fleet of foot Africa's athletes ran off with 24 medals at the World Championships in Edmonton. The men took every distance race from 1,500 m up while the continent's women notched victories...
...Davenport was not linked to the killing until yesterday, after subsequent investigation by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, according to its spokesperson David Procopio...
...Verbal statements and physical evidence from [Davenport] linked him to the murder,” Procopio said. Procopio would not elaborate further on the nature of the evidence...