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Hemlock. A crowbar to the knees. Locusts. To most tennis fans, these might seem like the only ways to topple Roger Federer, the three-time defending U.S. Open champion and arguably the greatest tennis player of all time. Federer has already taken two Grand Slam championships this year (the Australian Open and Wimbledon, where he has won five consecutive titles). He has compiled 11 for his career, just three shy of the men's singles record held by Pete Sampras...
Brandt's Grand Design. For West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who flies to Moscow this week for the formal signing, the treaty marks the first crucial success of his Ostpolitik. That is his grand design, which envisions a united Western Europe living in peace with its neighbors to the east...
Brandt's first concepts of the possibility of European conciliation were formed during his years as the hard-headed young mayor of West Berlin. Later, as Foreign Minister in the Grand Coalition from 1967-69, he made his first serious approaches to the East. After the Social Democrats formed a ruling coalition with Walter Scheel's Free Democrats following the September 1969 elections, Brandt dispatched his most trusted foreign policy adviser, State Secretary Egon Bahr, to Moscow for exhaustive preliminary discussions...
...fairs," run by Salemites but often staffed by out-of-towners, that breezed in yearly to take advantage of high season. These events infuriated several of the store owners. Says Barbara Szafranski, owner of the shop Angelica of Angels, "Why should [a fair owner] come in and make fifty grand in one flush when we spend all year trying to get close to that...
Design can sometimes seem pretty mundane?how hard is it to change the shape of a coffee mug??but often the most random life experiences can inspire grand ideas. Witness the way John Mackey, a six-time college dropout, changed his diet (from meat eater to vegetarian) and in doing so envisioned the nation's first natural-food market, which he eventually built into Whole Foods, a $9 billion business that has revolutionized the food industry. Similarly and against terrific odds, inspiration is what propelled ceramicist Eva Zeisel out of prison, where she had been confined on false accusations...