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...aggressive game style,” Clayton said. “He played into my strength, my speed, allowing me to break him down mentally.”The raucous Michigan crowd and a controversial call on Clayton’s last 5-4 match point forced him to display his grit and mental toughness in taking his second singles match of the weekend.“There were hecklers and whatnot,” Clayton said, “but I kept my cool, my teammates were cheering me on.”No. 5 Dan Nguyen also pulled...
...such lengths to breed pandas if the threat of extinction has eased? Harkness says national pride in the program's success and bureaucratic self-preservation are factors. There also may be an economic motive. Zoos are eager to donate money to China in exchange for the right to display pandas. In the U.S., four zoos, including the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., are each paying $10 million over a decade for their Wolong-bred bears. But Zhang denies the breeding program is aimed at raising money. He notes that the government restricts the number of overseas groups the Wolong center...
...Serena Williams, 25, her third Australian Open championship and eighth Grand Slam event, in a stunning display of force that promises to reinvigorate the women's tour; in a definitive rout of No. 1--ranked Maria Sharapova in straight sets; after injuries and fashion pursuits had sidelined her for more than a year; in Melbourne. Motivated, she said, by the memory of her murdered older half sister Yetunde--whose name she invoked after every net change--Williams became the lowest-ranked woman to win a Grand Slam singles trophy in 29 years and jumped in the world rankings, from...
More important than the awards, though, is the rare mix of ambition and imagination on display in the Mexicans' films. Babel, written by Oscar nominee Guillermo Arriaga, is a sprawling story of chance and destiny; a random gunshot from a reckless Moroccan boy triggers anguished events in Mexico, the U.S. and Japan. Children of Men conjures up a future world with no future: the human race has become infertile, and anarchy blankets the globe. Pan's Labyrinth burrows into the past, to Franco's Spain in 1944, and into a dark wonderland of fierce and magical creatures that offers escape...
...until the early 1980s and not available on the market until 1986. Pollock died in 1956. The other two paintings spawned similar findings, containing materials not available before 1962 or 1963, according to the study. Despite the growing controversy, Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art will display the majority of the collection from which the three disputed paintings stem in its “Pollock Matters” exhibit opening in September. Nancy Netzer, the museum’s director and professor of art history at Boston College, said that the works still merit exhibition and further...