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...Number of consecutive Grand Slam finals in which Venus and Serena Williams have faced each other, the most of any pair in the history of Open tennis. Serena, 4; Venus...
...Final score of the fifth set of the Australian Open quarterfinal match, won by Andy Roddick over Younes El Aynaoui. At 2 hr. 23 min., it was the longest Grand Slam fifth set in the Open...
Norman played 12 minutes on Saturday. He had four turnovers in that time but also had two fast-break dunks in less than 90 seconds in the first half. The second one was an electrifying slam over two Penn forwards. The play made Norman the target of an obscenity-based chant from the Penn student section for the rest of the night?...
...teeing up an "Adlai Stevenson moment." That's diplomat-speak for the instant in which a U.S. official trumps all naysayers at the United Nations by hauling out graphic, incontrovertible evidence that its enemy is lying. Stevenson, as President John F. Kennedy's UN ambassador in 1962, slam-dunked the Soviets during a heated Security Council debate by producing satellite photographs that disproved Moscow's denials that missiles had been stationed in Cuba. Secretary of State Colin Powell hopes to produce a similar effect when he presents U.S. evidence against Iraq at a special session of the Security Council convened...
...Critics slam the Administration for having provoked Kim with its bellicose, axis-of-evil rhetoric--"It's like yelling at a guy who's aiming a gun at you," laments a Pentagon official--and then downplaying the North Korean danger so as not to disrupt its timetable for a strike against Iraq. Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher told TIME that the Administration "seems to have almost an obsession" with Saddam. "I'm concerned that we seem to be lurching toward war without taking into account what our priorities should be." The White House insists that Iraq remains a greater...