Word: pete
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...Doherty, Pete •arrest of after being found slumped on a toilet on a British Airways flight on which a hypodermic needle was also found, followed by arrest of for driving erratically in a car in which drugs were found, puts in perspective recent claims by of being "mostly clean...
When the Swiss tennis star Roger Federer won the French Open on June 7, he tied Pete Sampras' record of 14 Grand Slam titles and become only the sixth player in history to win all four Grand Slam events (the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. and Australian Opens). In the GOAT Debate - Greatest of All Time - Federer now has only one rival: Rod Laver, the Australian star who not only won all four Slams, but twice did so in a calendar year (in 1962 and 1969). Laver's total of 11 Grand Slam titles could have been higher...
...Read TIME's 10 Questions with Pete Sampras...
...embarrassing spectacle concerns the roster of speakers for Monday evening's GOP annual joint Senate and House fundraiser, the biggest Republican congressional event of the year, which is expected to rake in at least $10 million. The Alaska governor was originally invited last spring by Pete Sessions, the chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC), to address the dinner. She accepted, or so Sessions thought, and a press release went out. But there was apparently a miscommunication in Palin World between Washington and Alaska advisers, because as it turned out, the 2008 vice presidential nominee had a conflict...
...Stuart Miller says he's not sure why. One theory is that far from "biting" the ball, as many players describe it, the strings are "slippery" - when the ball pulls the strings out of their gridded alignment, they snap back quickly, propelling the ball's rotation. (See pictures of Pete Sampras...