Word: martina
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...fall lugging their toolboxes, with their names carefully written in black marker on their rulers, to the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale--a mall-front junior college that overlooks Time Warped: A '70s and '80s Nightclub. Their insistence on expanding their interests beyond tennis has annoyed the likes of Martina Navratilova, who says this endeavor shows the sisters' arrogance and lack of commitment to tennis...
...full week of school for the Chase Championship (formerly the Virginia Slims) at Madison Square Garden in New York City, which starts Nov. 13 and could very well include a face-off between the two classmates. It's conceivable that despite Davenport and that pesky No. 1 ranked Martina Hingis, Venus, with her superior court coverage, and Serena, with her greater power, could spend the next few years swapping the two top spots the way they would sweaters...
...church in more dishonesty." Pius is the heavy in the well-reviewed The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, by Brown University historian David Kertzer, which is being adapted for Broadway by playwright Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy). Even the author of the definitive, three-volume Pius biography, Jesuit historian Giacomo Martina, does not favor his subject for sainthood...
...sisters (and doubles partners) each predict victory and no hard feelings; Dad hedged his bets, putting 50 pounds sterling on each daughter on his way out of town. TIME Daily's five bucks is on Venus, who overpowered Martina Hingis to get to the semifinal and has taken three of four career matches from her younger, shorter sis. Though Serena took the U.S. Open last year and was touted as the sister to beat, family karma suggests it's Venus's turn to take her shot in a major final...
...Butterfield 8 novelist 2. Ad figure Joe 3. Frat letter 4. Org. overseeing Sydney festivities 5. Bessemer process leftover 6. She defeated Martina in the '85 U.S. Open 7. Coelho's out; he's in 8. The RIAA wants to shut it down 9. Nation that has apologized for its Holocaust role: abbr. 10. Kind of cow, horse, dog or man 12. The Justice Department will compensate his estate for his tapes and papers 15. Aquino's successor in the Philippines 19. Unknown, on a sked 21. Jesse Ventura, once 23. Prefix with log or gram 24. Novi __, Serbia...