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Match Point, as it happened, was a perfect test of her professional skills. Hired to replace Kate Winslet on a week's notice, Johansson arrived on a London location never having met Allen or any of her fellow actors and was obliged immediately to plunge into one of her crucial scenes, in which, half drunk, she (temporarily) fends off the advances of Jonathan RhysMeyers, playing a character who may soon be her brother-in-law. She was, at the time, 19, and although she had been acting in movies for a decade, she had more often been a chastely yearned...
Elite athletes talk a lot about being in the zone, that magical place where mind and body work in perfect synch and movements seem to flow without conscious effort. Major-league pitchers, NBA stars, pro golfers and Olympic hopefuls dedicate their careers to the search for this elusive feeling, devoting hours of training to "listening" to their body and "reading" their muscles?trying to construct a bridge between mind and body sturdy enough to lead them straight to athletic nirvana...
...when Cooper was named to head the department's Office of Legal Counsel, he immediately thought of Alito to be one of his deputies. The office functions almost as a law firm within the Executive Branch, offering legal advice on the various ideas coming from other presidential aides?the perfect post for a man who focused more on the fine points of jurisprudence than on politics. This was a chance for a big step up. The question was, Could he be trusted...
...Zheng Jie, it all came down to the nifty clothes. A lot of youngsters fall in love with tennis because of the exhilaration of a perfect ace or the thrilling geometry of a well-placed volley. But when Zheng was growing up in China's rural Sichuan province, she knew little about the game. The coaches who approached her in 1990, when she was seven years old, had to explain that tennis was like ping-pong, only with a bigger, fuzzier ball. Still, there were advantages to playing this strange sport. "Because my teammates and I were among the first...
...sovereign party. That's why an election that started out as a mere annoyance may pull the curtain down on a political era. According to one survey, 60% believe the government can't fix the cronyism that permeates the federal bureaucracy. For the unlucky Martin, it has become the perfect storm. One of Canada's most accomplished Finance Ministers, Martin, 67, had long groomed himself for the national stage. The names in his personal Rolodex range from international bankers to Bono, the rock-star poverty crusader. But when he became PM in December 2003 after staging an internal party coup...