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...people haunted consciously or unconsciously by painful memories, there may be hope. Roger Pitman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard medical school, is working to understand post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The syndrome, he believes, is the result of brain chemicals reinforcing themselves in a cerebral vicious circle. "In the aftermath of a traumatic event," he says, "you tend to think more about it, and the more you think about it, the more likely you are to release further stress hormones, and the more likely they are to act to make the memory of that event even stronger...
Dench: When I first came to the RSC [Royal Shakespeare Company] in the early '60s, there was a boy in the paint shop painting sets who was called Roger Reese. And he ended up playing Hamlet. That kind of cherishing--we don't have that anymore. And it's never the fact that good actors are in work and bad actors are not in work. We are all aware that right here, right behind your shoulder, is somebody who will do your part and probably a great deal better than you. It's not just one--there...
...Cooper's big break in the '57 Open was Fraser upsetting Lew Hoad in a semi-final. "Lew had an off day," says Cooper. "He could have those, but when he was on he was unbeatable. He played with such a lot of wrist. Watching [current world No. 1] Roger Federer reminds me of the way Hoad played. But Lew had such strong wrists he could do it with a wooden racquet...
Trying to distill this logic into a prediction of who'll win in Melbourne is always fraught, though perhaps less so in this era of Roger Federer, who's so far ahead of the rest in the ATP points race that in February he's certain to break Jimmy Connors' record for most consecutive weeks at No. 1 (160). Here are the 10 key questions - and our best answers ? about the Open fortnight, beginning...
...ranked 20, Hewitt is having far more trouble than he used to winning those tight matches against solid but unexceptional players, and as such could easily exit in any early round. For various reasons, he hasn't been playing enough tournaments and his untimely Jan. 5 split with coach Roger Rasheed - sudden and rancorous, despite Rasheed's gracious public statement - would derail anyone, besides, perhaps, the cantankerous and determined Hewitt. He still talks a good game and there's little reason to believe that wedlock and fatherhood have dulled his yearning to win his own Open. But if nothing else...