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...disinterested since she and her sister Venus dominated the game earlier in the decade and written off as plain washed up after losing to ... Bammer-- can now ponder the preposterous. A Grand Slam. Williams took the Australian title, crushing the sport's hottest star, Russian-born, American-bred Maria Sharapova, in the final, 6-1, 6-2. She followed that up with another impressive hard-court title at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, again dismantling Sharapova, 1 and 1, en route to beating the world's current top-ranked player, Justine Henin, for the championship. "The fact...
...Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit was born in Florence, Ala., on March 12, 1907, 23 years before the discovery of Pluto. At Yale, she compiled The Bright Star Catalogue, which described the positions of stars as well as their color, brightness and motion. In 1957 she became director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, Mass., where she mentored a generation of women who pursued astronomy careers. Hoffleit...
...best decisions I've ever made," says Gulbis. "I'm living my dream and having so much fun." And let's not forget Michelle Wie, that stylish, 6-ft. Hawaiian palm, currently sidelined with a wrist injury, whose $20 million endorsement contracts rival those of tennis queen Maria Sharapova, even though she's spent more time trying to qualify (unsuccessfully) for men's tourneys. "These women aren't afraid to exploit their sexuality a little bit," says Rob McNamara, golf professional at Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Va. "But these pinup girls can play championship-level golf, and that...
...Mariachi Veritas de Harvard, and others. Visiting Harvard is a symbolic homecoming for the duo, at least according to Presencia Latina’s oraganizers.“Whenever I’ve been talking to the manager, that’s what it is,” says Maria Teresa Herrera ’07, co-chair of Presencia. “It means so much to them.”Producer Keny Zurita ’09 sees their appearance as significant for the Latino community on a larger scale. “I think they serve...
...Infante collection will eventually span 23 features. Now that my appetite is stoked, I'd like to catch up with Dos tipos de cuidado (The Troublesome Two), his only film co-starring Jorge Negrete, and the 1956 Tizoc, his last big movie and the only one he made with Maria Felix. There's also "Los tres huastecos (Three Guys from La Huasteca), in which Pedro plays three roles: a stalwart Army captain, a violin-playing priest and a lumpen atheist. In one film planned at the time of his death, Infante was to play seven different characters...