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...seats. There were certainly more black people in this tennis stadium than the last time sisters met for a majors final--in 1884, in pasty-white Victorian Wimbledon. It was appropriate that Arthur Ashe Stadium would be the site for the first duel between African Americans for a Grand Slam singles championship...
...been laid out for him. "Certain victory, Junichiro-kun," read a note written in his father's script. In Japan, political inheritance is common: about a third of the seats in parliament are passed from one generation to the next. So Koizumi's election should have been a slam dunk. Instead, he suffered an embarrassing defeat in Yokosuka, his family's parliamentary district. "His political base was fragile, because a lot of new people were moving into the urban areas," says Naoki Tanaka, an economist who now heads a Prime Ministerial advisory panel. "And at first, his speeches were...
...PLANES SLAM TOWERS...
...went for its political and military muscles. David Marra, 23, an information-technology specialist, had turned his BMW off an I-395 exit to the highway just west of the Pentagon when he saw an American Airlines jet swooping in, its wings wobbly, looking like it was going to slam right into the Pentagon: "It was 50 ft. off the deck when he came in. It sounded like the pilot had the throttle completely floored. The plane rolled left and then rolled right. Then he caught an edge of his wing on the ground." There is a helicopter pad right...
What does one say after seeing a Boeing 767 slam into the side of 110-story building? What measured, impersonal language does one use to express the emotion one feels when a place where 50,000 people used to go to work every day collapses in a pile of rubble...