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...late in the fifth set of Rafael Nadal's five-set victory over Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final on Sunday - a match that took over seven hours to complete, included two rain delays, featured multiple changes of momentum, and is already being discussed as potentially the greatest tennis match ever played - when the middle-aged couple sitting next to me turned to each other between points and suddenly held hands in that heightened way that you see in movies of plane crashes. "I love you," the man said with an intensity he seemed not to have expressed for some...
...Fifth Set: Federer, who has worn a ridiculous throwback knit sweater to warm up for all his matches this fortnight, warms up after the rain delay without it. At this point, in the midst of his ferocious comeback, it's as if he's abandoned affectation and become all heart...
...Fifth Set (5-5): The stadium has become eerily quiet in between points. This is partly due to the cold and partly to that strange ability great athletes have to take your breath away...
...Fifth Set (5-6): The crowd breaks the silence in between games by chanting "Roger, Roger!" Their cheers become indistinguishable from the Nadal fans who cheer "Rafa, Rafa!" It seems fitting for these two great competitors that in the cheering, they have become one great athlete...
...fifth time, portrait artist Michael J. Deas has created our cover. He does painstaking research into his subjects and takes about 12 weeks to finish a painting. At left, you see the full portrait (on the cover, we crop the image much closer), which shows Deas' obsession with detail, down to one of the fountain pens Twain favored. The pen, made by Conklin Pen Co., originally of Toledo, Ohio, had a ridge on it that prevented the pen from moving. "I prefer it," said Twain in a 1903 endorsement, "because it is a profanity saver; for it cannot roll...