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...time." The clear favorite to win in Melbourne is Federer, whom Cooper can see eventually passing Sampras' record majors tally of 14: "If he maintains his motivation he could end up as the greatest player of all time . . . he hasn't got a weakness." With only two majors, Pat Rafter doesn't qualify as a great, but Cooper marvels at how, as a pint-sized 13-year-old, the Queenslander tried to play a serve-volley style that was beyond him. "But all that lunging he did as a little bloke set him up," Cooper says. "He grew into...
...tour. I have an hour and a half of performing every night and improvising. If there's a rafter, I can climb right...
...trip, the two decided to go white-water rafting down the Vilcanota River. Joining them were three other women and a male guide. Cooney said in interviews that as the raft sped down the river, it struck a cluster of rapids and capsized and that all six rafters were tossed into the river. Cooney said he ended back up on the raft after the guide pulled him and one of the women from the river, but the other three “started to disappear” into the water. Although another rafter was able to cling to a rock...
Last night the Lobsters lost to Patrick Rafter and the Philadelphia Freedoms at Bright by a score of 22-17, bringing the Lobsters’ overall record to 3-5 with six matches left to play in the season...
...rafters of oak and white pine that predate the Constitution, Babcock reads colonial minidramas. He describes his discoveries with delight: stalls on worn threshing floors that mark a farmer's shift from wheat to cattle; scrawled symbols on a rafter commemorating a son who moved his father's barn; boards, sealing the huge doors of a cavernous Dutch barn, that reveal the date of its sale to a German, who then cut smaller doors...