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...what hasn't changed about tennis? For one, the top guys have always attracted beautiful women. In 1957, Cooper realized he was in a hotel room next door to a Miss Queensland finalist, Helen Wood, who would soon become Miss Australia. Pestered by Neale Fraser into knocking on her door and asking her out, Cooper thought he'd erred when she eyed him contemptuously. "I can still see her face," he says. "But we went out and sort of clicked. I guess I wasn't what she thought I might have been. I was pretty shy." Their match became...
...their first tournament for more than a month and follows a festive period often characterised by rest, (relative) overindulgence and an aversion to anything that reminds them of tennis. Thus, the Oz Open tends to favor two types of player - the naturals like Agassi and surprise 2006 finalist Marco Baghdatis, and the toilers like 2002 winner Thomas Johansson who don't mind hitting thousands of balls over Christmas...
...presidential search committee has seriously considered non-Harvard grads in the past. In the 2000-2001 search, Lee C. Bollinger—now president of Columbia University—was a finalist without a Harvard degree who also was tied to the University by a daughter who had been an undergraduate. Carrie J. Bollinger graduated from the College...
...considered for the presidency of MIT in 2004, the top job at Boston University in 2005, and was a finalist in the University of Chicago’s presidential search last spring, according to a source close to the provost...
...Cruise in his underwear. Windsor G. Hanger ’10: Buncombe County’s Junior Miss, first runner up and winner of the overall academic award at Junior Miss North Carolina 2006. A. Elizabeth Bridges ’09: South Carolina’s At-Large 2005; finalist for Be Your Best Self 2005. Sopen B. Shah ’08: runner-up to America’s Junior Miss 2004 (Top Five) and National Interview winner as Wisconsin’s Junior Miss 2004. FM: How do people at Harvard react when they find out that...