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Tselentis again got the nod in goal, although his protective prowess was not enough to keep the Minutemen from scoring early and taking advantage of the tired Crimson team...
...records like Woods has and Williams' two Grand Slam titles are a drop in the bucket as compared to Woods' index of accolades and titles. But the 20-year old woman is undeniably making history. Williams' U.S. Open victory last Sunday was as much a celebration of exceptional athletic prowess as it was of femininity. She stunned her equally hard-hitting opponent, Lindsay Davenport, with 117 m.p.h. serves, eight aces, 12 saved break points and, of course, she did so in style...
...combat. But it's the worst thing he can do on a peacekeeping mission because an itchy trigger finger can spark civilian casualties, renewed warfare and national embarrassment. Since the cold war, which Russian and U.S. troops spent pacing in their garrisons awaiting World War III, military prowess has become a more subtle discipline. But subtlety has never been the U.S. military's strong suit, and no other modern military mission is as vexing to the Pentagon as peacekeeping...
Math professors are not usually known for their literary prowess. So when Manil Suri, 41, a professor of numerical analysis at the University of Maryland, applied for Pulitzer-prizewinning author Michael Cunningham's writing workshop in 1997, Cunningham had no particular reason for high hopes. But as soon as he began reading Suri's book, he was bowled over. "I knew from the first sentence that he was not only accepted into the class, but that he had a voice," says Cunningham. "Sentence for sentence, he is a beautiful and entirely original writer...
...that personality almost as much as his athletic prowess that has allowed him to become all things to all people. He is youthful but not callow, self-assured but never cocky, intelligent without seeming intellectual. And he remains, in his megastardom, a wary and private man. Woods reveals little about himself that can be exploited and rarely offers opinions that might offend. When he speaks to reporters and fans, his voice stays in a single register, and he often rounds off well-crafted answers with vague platitudes. On the course, he doesn't play to the crowds, even as they...