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...city-hall welcome in Brussels. This was the slightly built 21-year-old's fourth tournament win of the year; Clijsters, 20, has won three. Henin-Hardenne began plotting a French Open conquest in 1992, when her mother took her to the Roland Garros stadium to see Monica Seles defeat Steffi Graf for the title. She told her mother, "One day I'll be on that court, and maybe I'll win." The dream became reality, but without her mother, who died of cancer in 1995. This week at Wimbledon she begins a campaign to better her performance...
...willing to kill. Solely going after the bad guys won't work. The West has grasped some of the difficulties that give rise to terrorists: social and economic backwardness, repressive rule in some Muslim countries and lack of effective participation in world trade. But other factors include the historical defeat and humiliation of Muslims, their feeling of impotence vis-a-vis the West, the arrogant concept of the superiority of Islam and Muslim youths' lack of hope. The war on terrorism is to a large extent a war of ideas with a heavy religious imprint. Ideas and minds must...
...Kucharski/Warsaw and Jan Stojaspal The Bubble Economy There must be good economic news somewhere: French drinks group Rémy Cointreau said revived champagne sales tripled its profits in bubbly, to €17.2 million. Or perhaps businesses are heeding Napoleon's supposed words: "In victory, you deserve champagne; in defeat, you need...
Three simple questions can defeat Bush. First, is our society better off economically than it was four years ago? Second, is the world better off and safer now than it was four years ago? (Does anyone truly feel comfortable taking an airplane trip to Europe?) Third, do we feel safer in the U.S. now that we have many fewer civil liberties than we did four years ago? DALE HILL Washita, Okla...
...loss Harvard could never rectify was its defeat to Brown. Not one of the five...