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...that Federer has won the career Grand Slam, let's set the record straight. Who is the greatest player of all time? You've said before that all a player can hope for is to be the best...
...into my research, I saw that those who were really effective made use of not just a "to-do" list but a "stop-doing" list. I set up a time almost every day where I turn off my cell phone and do not get on [the Internet]. It's a pocket of quietude. I also leave white space on my calendar, roughly three days every two weeks. Nothing can be scheduled during white-space time. I try to create bubbles of tranquil time for hard thinking. It can also be a day where...
...House, like the Senate, has set an ambitious timetable for itself to get the bill passed. Waxman, for instance, expects to hold hearings on the plan later this month and begin drafting his bill shortly after the July 4 recess. Any differences among the versions produced by the three committees would be worked out by the House Rules Committee - which, in practice, means that Speaker Nancy Pelosi will have a strong say in the shape of the final product. House leaders hope to have a bill on the floor by the final week of July...
...Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola and Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso. Like Bongo, all have denied any wrongdoing. But Bongo was one of the greediest and, coming to power at 31 in 1967, just seven years after Gabon's independence, one of the first. As such, he set and maintained the catastrophically low standard for African leadership that would ensure that a continent bursting with natural resources would remain the poorest and most war-ravaged place on earth for the ensuing four decades...
...leaving Monday's meeting with the Prime Minister, one MP lamented missing "10 minutes of Coronation Street". Just like the popular British soap opera, the saga over Brown's future looks set to run and run. - With reporting by Catherine Mayer / London...