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...while sponsors may want Nadal to become a man, he needs to be his own man. Fans love Nadal because he seems so real. Even his most deliberate calculations - to pick up the racquet in his left hand and hit the ball in a way nobody has before - seem to stem from a subversive instinct. For tennis's antihero, on the court at least, normal might be a step...
...divisive pick as President Jimmy Carter's Attorney General, Griffin Bell, 90, was criticized for not doing enough to enforce school desegregation in the South as a federal judge in the 1960s. He was later praised, though, for his strategic work on race issues...
...Washington Richardson Bows Out President-elect Barack Obama's pick for Commerce Secretary, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, withdrew his name from consideration amid a grand-jury investigation into state contracts awarded to a political contributor. While the governor headed back to the statehouse, Obama's team scrambled to fill other crucial posts...
Leon Panetta Bill Clinton's former top aide is reportedly the pick for CIA chief, a role some say should be reserved for agency veterans...
...quite an improvement from the last time his team battled a ranked opponent. In last year’s opener against No. 23 Stanford, he had no points, turnovers, or assists, but did pick up five fouls in a 111-56 loss...