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...Evans at No. 4 and 5, respectively bagled their opponents in the first set and then went on to win the second set 6-2.Omodele-Lucien started off slow at No. 6, but found his rhythm in the first set tiebreaker, which he won 7-2 on the strength of leaden run-around-the-backhand forehands. He cruised through the next set 6-1.At No. 2, Clayton went down a break early, but soon after knocked his opponent out of sync by mixing potent offensive shots into his trademark “I’ll get anything back” game.In...
...there is an impressive 11% compared to the United States’ 31%. (Boston, for a more apropos comparison, is just shy of 14%.) But the U.S. is a different place. In Barcelona, a walking city par excellence, markets with fresh produce abound; tiny, flavor-loaded tapas replace our leaden meat-filled entrees; and fast food, despite the occasional McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises, struggles to gain a foothold. But it wasn’t principally the lack of nutritional fact bombardment that made the seafood paella so memorable, or the sea salt...
...detective series called Life on Mars, made for the BBC by the independent production company Kudos Film & Television, won over viewers with its originality and an unstarry cast. It's an exception in an era when schedules at the BBC and at commercial broadcasters buckle under the weight of leaden fare built to showcase stars or to reprise themes that have already proved successful elsewhere. (TV's fictional hospitals now employ almost as many staff as Britain's unwieldy National Health Service...
...collective groan of despair seemed audible Monday as millions of Parisians, freshly returned from sunny summer vacations, threw open their shutters to find the same unrelentingly leaden, dripping skies they'd fled just weeks before. The annual post-holiday "rentrée"- or September return to work and school - is always bad enough, but many of the Parisians setting off on that initial commute Monday looked oddly ashen under their tans as they cursed autumn weather that has plagued the capital all summer. "This had to be the crappiest summer in the history of weather," spat Lionel Martin...
...Washington divided government loosens lips; narratives that might never have been told play out as sworn testimony. Some witnesses encase their truths in leaden prose. Not so James Comey, a former Deputy Attorney General, who unspooled a vivid tale in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee about the night in March 2004 when he raced to the hospital to prevent two top White House aides from taking advantage of his critically ill boss, John Ashcroft, in a dispute over the Administration's secret domestic eavesdropping program. Comey was acting Attorney General while Ashcroft was incapacitated by pancreatitis. Like his boss...