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Sophomore Christina Chen topped her first-round opponent, Mariana Lee from Brown, riding several unforced errors by Lee en route to a tough 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-7) victory. Chen lost a third-set tiebreaker in a Flight ‘D’ consolation game to Brown’s Hana Bartel...
...Lula, 56, still around, spooking financial markets with the very real prospect that he'll romp home to a first-round victory when Brazilians go to the polls to pick a new president on October 6? The answer may lie in the recent failure of U.S.-backed capitalist experiments all over Latin America, which have left even more of the region's 500 million people mired in poverty. That, and the fact that the erstwhile firebrand leader of Brazil's Workers Party (PT) has in some ways repackaged himself as a Blair of Brazil, moving his party and its policies...
...Wimbledon when he unseated former champion Andre Agassi, then continued a sizzling streak by winning his first atp (Association of TennisProfessionals) title in August and defeating world number-four ranked Marat Safin last month. 'I surprised everyone?that the player who beat Agassi that day was not European or American, but from Asia and Thailand,' he says. 'I feel like I'm representing not just Thai people but Asian players.' Srichaphan's ascent hit a snag last week, however, witha surprise first-round loss atthe Salem Open in Hong Kong. He dominated long stretches ofthe match with a laserlikeforehand...
...first Grand Slam title, and the Williams sisters faced each other across the net for the first time in a Grand Slam. Now a Hewitt victory, the eclipse of Sampras and an all-Williams ladies final have become the norm. The two-week tournament that begins this week in New York is unlikely to repeat the bizarre results of Wimbledon, where the men's seeds toppled like ninepins in the first week, leaving Argentine David Nalbandian to face world No. 1 Hewitt in the final. One match whose outcome is certain is Wimbledon champion Serena Williams' first-round contest against...
...cost schema to oust Saddam. But skeptics doubt that Saddam's regime will collapse that easily, or that it will be significantly troubled by the strategically insignificant opposition forces. Like the "Afghan model," the "October surprise" can be implemented relatively quickly and has the advantage of a first-round knockout - it doesn't seriously test the political-military stamina of the U.S. war effort. Skeptics foresee massive loss of life on both sides (and among Iraqi civilians) in a battle for Baghdad's streets. Indeed, they warn, Saddam's own battle plan will be precisely to draw American ground forces...