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...Shahar Peer, ranked 17th on the women's tennis tour, requested a berth in the Qatar Open, which runs from Feb. 18-24 in the capital city, Doha, and offers a $2.5 million purse. To her surprise, Peer found she was pushing against an open door; both the Qatar tournament organizers and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) agreed that she could compete. "They all welcomed me warmly," she told TIME at the end of a grueling practice session in Tel Aviv with her part-time coach, Conchita Mart ínez, a 1994 Wimbledon champion. Tennis officials assured the young...
...found in the care of his aunt, an itinerant farm worker, and put in an orphanage at age 10. He has never forgotten his first night there. "I'd never been locked in before," he says. "For years I used to wake at night and hear that door slamming. This to me is closure." With Rudd's simple "sorry," Harrison's countrymen hear a door closing on a dark chapter of their history...
...visa services, the consulate, is little more than the paper-generating hub of this apparatus. They operate mostly like unusually officious post offices with Kalashnikov-armed guards outside. Consulates close unexpectedly on both native and foreign holidays, take long lunch breaks and confiscate your cell phone at the door. And then they turn you away because you’re one dirham short of the ?70 passport renewal fee. Some of the officials who work there, behind the dreary glass screens, are, no doubt, delightful people. But there’s little they can do: Their job amounts to nothing...
...living in the same house as someone is daunting to some. But for Professors of Economics Guido W. Imbens and Susan Athey, the home-life proximity was so rewarding that when they transferred to Harvard from professorial positions at Berkeley and Stanford, respectively, they chose offices right next door to one another...
...victory in Louisiana. If he overwhelmingly wins the so-called Potomac Primaries, where 237 delegates are at stake, he could start to break away from Clinton, especially since he's also favored in the next two states due to vote on February 19, his native Hawaii and Wisconsin, next door to his home state of Illinois. If Clinton can pull off a stronger-than-expected showing - or even a win - in Virginia, it could give her a much-needed boost in the run-up to Texas and Ohio. Obama now actually leads Clinton in delegates...