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...chosen is none other than Sydney-based Roche, now 59. But there's a key difference between Lendl and Federer. Even at his peak the Czech had weaknesses - clunky volleys, a sulky countenance - that kept Roche busy. Federer, on the other hand, has scarcely a limitation, let alone a flaw. He is, at 23, as complete a player as even the sport's ancients can recall. "I play a classical game," says the graceful Swiss, smiling, "so I have the seniors on my side...
Andrew G. Barr ’05, a government concentrator in Dunster House, said that “obviously my instinct is not to buy into any theory that there’s any sort of genetic flaw in women that prevents them from being good professors...
...fatal flaw of former Mets GM Steve Phillips was his refusal to rebuild, his stubborn belief that the team would contend and reach greatness with one or two added pieces. He didn’t grasp the concept that baseball isn’t like the NBA, where two superstars can turn any last-place team into championship material. Baseball teams can’t be fixed so easily. Successful teams build from the ground up and then fill in the pieces...
...anything for anyone when the chips are down," says Aykroyd.) But the cost of his artistic and personal freedom is a kind of eternal vigilance. He is clearly one of the most willful people on earth, but he is also talented enough to make that seem like a trivial flaw. "As a moviegoer, when you see him, you know you're in the hands of someone who has a set of values that he won't veer away from," says Michaels. "It inspires a lot of trust. Plus he's so good." And with the exception of the odd moment...
...they hadn't counted on the nanny. Kerik's disclosure, a week after President George W. Bush had announced his selection, that a nanny he had once employed may have been an illegal immigrant, and that he had not paid some taxes on her salary, became the fatal flaw for the man whose prospective job would include enforcing immigration laws. "The good news is he found it, he came forward and he cut off a bitter conflict that would have cost the President capital," Giuliani says. "The bad news is that it could have been caught earlier...