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...unique style can beat any player in the world, Toni has been quietly picking apart Nadal's game, remaking it shot by shot so that the Spaniard plays not less classically but more classically. As Nadal prepares for this year's first grand slam event, in Australia beginning Jan. 19, the top seed and his coach seem to be posing a new challenge: Can tennis's great outsider win by embracing normal? (See pictures of an alternative look at Wimbledon...
Like 24 (Jack Bauer and his ticking-time-bomb scenarios return Jan. 11), BSG tests the morality and rationalizations of an age of fear. Roslin is idealistic but possibly blinded by belief; Adama is high-handed but often right to be that way. Even swashbuckling pilot Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) is unstable as often as heroic. The Cylons, meanwhile, prove a fascinating society, racked with doubt and riven by debate over their religious mission...
APPOINTED Most recently a top contender for the No. 2 spot under Barack Obama, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, 50, was named the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Jan. 4. Kaine's term as governor expires at the end of the year...
PRINTED For the first time in its 157-year history, the New York Times printed a display advertisement on its front page. The color strip promoting CBS programming extended across the bottom of the Jan. 5 edition. Previously, cover ads were limited to text-only classifieds...
Born into white privilege in an increasingly racist society, Helen Suzman, who died Jan. 1 at 91, was a lifelong contrarian. She served in South Africa's Parliament from 1953 to 1989, fighting her government's repression of the country's black majority and the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and his fellow antiapartheid fighters. From 1961 to 1974, it was a battle she fought alone as the Parliament's sole anti-apartheid member...