Word: slams
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...popular boss victimized by Hutton, complaining that the government had gotten to pick its own referee and that the report was legally peculiar. He promised a detailed rebuttal. Campbell is now a private citizen - he left Downing Street last fall as he realized his high-profile campaign to slam the BBC over Gilligan had drained his effectiveness. Last week he could not stay off the airwaves or resist trumpeting his sense of vindication. Any more turmoil or high-profile errors from BBC News - which showed its underlying strengths last week with admirably balanced reports on its own boardroom agonies...
...second half, 0:00: A Rogus three with 45 seconds remaining cuts the Cornell lead to single digits, but the Big Red slam the door by going four-for-four from the line while Rogus misses two three pointers...
...signaled the beginning of the end. What it means in Hewitt's case isn't clear yet. At 22, he's the same age McEnroe was when the New Yorker felled Borg - surely too young for his game to be in terminal decline? With the year's first grand-slam event starting in Melbourne on Jan. 19, many are wondering whether Hewitt can make it back to the top, starting by becoming the first local in more than 25 years to win the Australian Open...
Hewitt doubters cite the precedent of the nuggetty Chinese-American Michael Chang. At the French Open in 1989, at the age of 17, Chang became the youngest man to win a grand slam title. But though he spent seven years in the Top 10 and retired only last August, he never won another one. Chang's game was built on the same pillars as Hewitt's: reliable, though not explosive, groundstrokes, a terrier's speed and tons of grit. Chang's problem - and for a while last year it looked like Hewitt's problem, too - was that grinding out matches...
...starting to splinter. His sterling performances in the Davis Cup last year proved he could still beat anyone in big, stand-alone matches before home crowds. But crawling back up the rankings and stringing together seven straight wins in two weeks - what's needed to claim a grand slam title - will ask sterner questions of his resolve. Whatever the obstacles, when it comes to making predictions about a man like Hewitt, the old line about never writing off a champion seems like very sound advice...