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...Malaysian capital who spends one-third of his time on intellectual-property issues. "To say that [Lucky and Flo] really made a huge difference borders on the ludicrous. It's more publicity hype than anything else." Miller notes that police crackdowns come and go, but pirated DVD shops usually ride out the brief business hiatuses just fine...
However, with three players ranked in the world's top ten, and two others not too far behind, most Serbs figure that winning a Grand Slam event like the U.S. Open is bound to happen sooner or later. For now they are just enjoying the ride. "Ana is great! Novak is great! Jelena is great!" Ivana, a Serbian blogger, wrote to the New York Observer website earlier this week. "I am proud to be Serbian!!!" Not since a host of Russian women burst onto the scene several years ago has one nation contributed so much in such a short time...
...campaign to drive Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic out of Kosovo back in 1999. At her parent's request, Ivanovic practised in the early morning to avoid the bombing runs. Jankovic was playing junior tournaments in Europe at the time and had to take a seven-hour train ride to Budapest and make her way past suspicious immigration officers looking askance at her Yugoslav passport even to play. When the bombing started, 12-year-old Djokovic was sent to a Munich tennis academy. But he started tennis much earlier, at the age of 4, and his first mentor and coach, Jelena...
...Hizzoner while he conducted official business. And billionaire New York mayor Michael Bloomberg often waits for the subway with his fellow citizens, though he's first driven by motorcade past the stop nearest his house to a station 22 blocks away, where the wait, or at least the ride, is shorter...
...here. Petraeus will probably oppose any immediate troop withdrawal, deferring any drawdown until next spring. Bush and most conservative pundits will demand that the surge continue into 2008. And Romney and Giuliani will find it harder to bob and weave. The press, which has given both men an easy ride on the issue, may start turning the screws. With luck, so will McCain, who has paid a heavy price for his Iraq candor. Even the White House could get into the act. From the President's perspective, after all, Romney and Giuliani haven't exactly been profiles in courage: they...