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...just running our mouths, like "We have tickets to the game. If we catch the ball, we're going to come into some money. What if we don't pay for this cab fare right now, but if I catch the ball, I'll give you two to three grand." He starts laughing, and he's like, "No, no, no thank you. I'll take the money." His loss...
...pregnancy to jump-start the complicated marriage negotiations between their families. She envisions an independent Anne who, after William's departure, brought her three children through harsh winters, plagues and food shortages, and prospered as a maltmaker and moneylender. Anne, not William, purchased and restored New Place, the grand home to which he would eventually retire. Although the Shakespeares lived apart most of their married lives, Greer rejects the notion of estrangement. Sixteenth century laws criminalized "living away from a wife." Greer reasons that if William did abandon Anne, and she did not denounce him, she must have been protecting...
...Sometimes you have to rattle the cage." Like Tiger Woods in golf, Federer preys on his opponent's reverence for him. Perhaps it's no coincidence that the player who has had the most success against Federer, Nadal, is the purveyor of the flying fist-pump. Says seven-time Grand Slam champ Mats Wilander: "Be a bit of an a--hole out there...
...Still, though Federer has strung together another dominant season, he is not completely unbeatable. The Swiss maestro has lost six matches this year, including yet another defeat to second-ranked Rafael Nadal in the final of the French Open, the only Grand Slam title to elude him. As the U.S. Open gets under way, we offer five perfectly legal ways to take down Roger Federer...
...education is the ultimate goal, say critics, then Lucy ought not leave her homeland; her grand North American tour will only serve to put the brakes on research. "Scientists who use Lucy for comparative studies will definitely be affected negatively by [her] absence, and I am one of them," says Ethiopian paleontologist Zeresenay Alemseged of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. "Six years is really too long!" Without "a compelling national interest" and "unique and exceptional benefits," Lucy - and, indeed, all similarly rare and valuable objects - should stay home, Alemseged says. If she absolutely...