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...young ANDRE AGASSI, with his Melissa Etheridge-style mullet, staring into a commercial camera and saying, "Image is everything." Agassi may not have enough time left in his career to wipe out the image of his semifinal exit from Wimbledon. Tied 6-6 in the fifth set against Patrick Rafter, Agassi hit a ball that was called out. He uttered an obscenity--a code violation that carries a $2,000 fine--which a lineswoman heard and reported to the umpire. Agassi promptly lost the match, but he wasn't through with the lineswoman. Approaching the net to congratulate Rafter, Agassi...
...final day as a player, at Wimbledon in 1999, stands like a doorway between his glorious past and his soiled present. Becker, who'd made his name serving and volleying, lost in straight sets in the fourth round to serve-and-volley specialist Pat Rafter. Becker knew he was done. He had liked sitting in the locker room during the rain delays that day, talking to older players back for seniors matches, but he felt removed from the whole scene, as if watching someone else complete his career. After losing he met with the press and began drinking. Barbara...
Speaking from his roost in a rafter of the Forbidden City, the bird demanded that the Lampoon endorse the "One Ibis" policy before negotiations for reunification could begin. Thresky said he would return from China peacefully when the magazine removes the impostor ibis currently on top of the castle and publicly acknowledges his royal sovereignty, he said...
Several sports in Sydney have a Patrick Rafter or Anna Kournikova type in the draw--a real looker--but none has anybody to equal badminton's Camilla Martin of Denmark, who was the attraction on the pressroom TV. To say she is smashing is not just to describe her game. But her game, as it happens, is indeed smashing. At 5 ft. 9 in., she is usually taller than her foe, who invariably is a woman from China, Indonesia or South Korea--countries that dominated the sport until the Danes came along...
Perhaps as a result, Cuban officials say privately that the Clinton Administration appears to be enforcing immigration accords more stringently. Those require that the U.S. send back any Cuban rafter intercepted at sea. But Washington has indulged--and Havana has railed at--a loophole known as the "wet feet, dry feet" rule, which allows any Cuban who makes it onto U.S. soil to claim asylum. That has only encouraged illegal balseros--rafters like Elian and his mother--to attempt the voyage across the straits. U.S. immigration officials in Miami tell TIME that "wet feet, dry feet" may come under serious...