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...else do you enjoy watching these days? [Novak] Djokovic, I like. He's got a great game. Lleyton Hewitt... he's in there with a chance to prove that he's not over the hill. Maybe [coach] Tony Roche can turn him around. I like a lot of the players. I guess I look with a different set of eyes. I've been out there. What will they do in that situation? It's not to do with their rackets; it's what they do under competitive stress...
...Mount Everest was conquered, and the names of an Auckland bee farmer, Edmund Hillary, and his Sherpa climbing partner, Tenzing Norgay, joined those of Peary, Amundsen and Lindbergh atop the hill of 20th Century adventuring giants. With the death of Hillary at age 88, the all five are gone. LIFE Books editorial director Robert Sullivan first spoke with Sir Edmund - his friends call him Ed - in the living room of Hillary's home in Auckland in 1992. Sullivan enjoyed three subsequent conversations with Hillary, the most recent in February 2003. The following interview is based on those four talks...
...were known as an aggressive climber in your Himalayan years.. I was quite competitive, and I tended to compete with members of my own expedition. I don't think I was unpleasantly aggressive, but I think I rather enjoyed grinding my companions into the ground on a big hill. I remember when [Everest expedition leader] John Hunt and I were walking in from Kathmandu to Everest, we crossed over a river and had to climb up a very long, steep hill. We were going to camp at the top of the hill. I always used to enjoy going fast...
...deadline to come clean about the full extent of its nuclear-weapons program, as it had promised to do, the North is already dismantling its plutonium reactor at Yongbyon - which produced the fissile material for its small nuclear arsenal - under the eyes of U.S. inspectors. Christopher Hill, Washington's point man on North Korea, made it clear the U.S. would be flexible on the missed deadline for full disclosure. "No one likes being late, but I think being late is probably preferable than being wrong or giving us something that we can't work with," Hill told reporters in Tokyo...
...very challenging schedule for everybody. It's not something that I'm telling you that you don't know, I mean, trying to cover all this ground, give people a chance to see you there while still running a national campaign is going to be a hill to climb [laughs] but we're up to it and we're getting ready and prepared to go out and do it everywhere we need to to compete. I don't know whether it'll be finished or not but I kind of suspect it'll be decided by the close...