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Just five months into his job as president of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), Etienne de Villiers faced a hostile crowd of doubles pros at the Masters Cup in Shanghai to explain to them why he would have to curtail their sport to save it. The players had already filed suit against the ATP, and there was De Villiers last November, back swinging just four months after cancer surgery, telling them he was going to go ahead with a shortened, no-ad scoring system; a super tie-break instead of a third set; and a rule that doubles players...
...current approach in Iraq is not sustainable. Bush mentioned the word "flexible" or "flexibility" several times during Wednesday's press conference and he hinted that he would consider a change in strategy if his generals proposed one. Meanwhile, General George Casey spoke at a Pentagon press conference about the pros and cons of adding more troops to stabilize Baghdad - something the Bush team has resisted for months. And the President seemed to lean rhetorically on the coming recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, led by James Baker and Lee Hamilton, who are in their own hunt for a new strategy...
...world view,” “articulation about what they do” and lyrics as reasons why they were perfect HarvardLIVE! candidates. Not only have they just released a new album and are beginning a U.S. tour but “they are absolute pros at this type of event,” O’Brien said. Prompted by moderator Tracy E. Nowski ’07, the Ladies articulately discussed everything from Easy Mac and back beards to suicide and politics—and of course, nudity (“As you get older, it?...
Thanks to aggressive redistricting in the 1990s and early 2000s, fewer than three dozen House seats are seriously in contention this election cycle, compared with more than 100 in 1994, the year Republicans swept to power with a 54-seat pickup in the House. Then there's what political pros call the ground game. For most of the 20th century, turning out voters on Election Day was the Democrats' strength. They had labor unions to supply workers for campaigns, make sure their voters had time off from their jobs to go to the polls and provide rides to get them...
...rise from poverty in Endicott, N.Y., where his father was a janitor and his mother died when he was in high school, is well-documented. “This is what I want to do,” Kacyvenski told The Crimson in 2000 about playing in the pros. “This is what I’ve wanted to do my whole life. Right now this is it.” —THE CRIMSON STAFF