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...year-old from San Diego, reminded us of the great things in sport. Before she was defeated by Lindsay Davenport in the semifinals at Wimbledon, she had become the first woman ever to advance to that point from the qualifying rounds. The "quallies," as they are known, are Grand Slam tennis' low-rent district, in which players uninvited to the world's most prestigious tournament slog through sparsely attended matches in the hope of winning their way onto Centre Court. The talent and moxie it takes to advance through the quallies and into the semifinals were enough to make Stevenson...
...noisy presidential underdog is to throw him a bone. George W. Bush has ventured far enough out of smile-and-wave mode to make some noises along McConnell's line ? make a CPI adjustment to the current hard-money limits and require full disclosure of contributors. "If a grand compromise is made," says Carney, "that could be the tradeoff: a soft-money ban in exchange for more hard money." That's still a long way from "one man, one vote" ? the rich will still get all the access when their man wins ? but maybe the influence wouldn...
Although he fell in the title game of the NCAA Championships to rival Jeff Morrison of Florida, he remained the No. 1 collegiate player in the country. Blake racked up enough points by winning two other Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Grand Slam events and by dominating the competition to the tune of a 41-4 record...
Although he fell in the title game of the NCAA Championships to rival Jeff Morrison of Florida, he remained the No. 1 collegiate player in the country. Blake racked up enough points by winning two other Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Grand Slam events and by dominating the competition to the tune of a 41-4 record...
Kubrick needed to be at his best, for the story turns on a very thin dime. The night after a grand party, at which both husband and wife indulge in potentially dangerous flirtations, she taunts him about his relationships with his female patients and insists on burdening him with a tale of an encounter she had at a seaside resort, where she and a young naval officer eyed each other erotically. Nothing more than that happened, but she tells her husband, in language that is almost identical in novel and screenplay, "Had he called me--I thought--I could...