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...April 2006, we ran a three-page photo essay by Yuri Kozyrev documenting the state of refugees in Kashmir after the catastrophic earthquake that took the lives of 75,000 people and displaced 3 million more. One of Yuri's pictures was of a slight girl in a hooded orange parka who had lost her leg in the quake. Two days after the magazine appeared, TIME's news-desk supervisor, Eileen Harkin, got a call from a member of the Shriners organization in Los Angeles. It wanted to help the girl. With clues from Yuri's notebooks and the assistance...
...Democratic nomination in 1992. "You don't have to be there for people to feel that you are." But there will also be the caution of knowing that every stray utterance could end up on YouTube. "The margin for rhetorical errors is quite small today. Any slight misstep can be distributed in all 50 states simultaneously," Kerrey adds. "There will be less creativity in talking--and in thinking...
...nearby Philadelphia that morning and discover that I have just been evaluated on small talk. I pass. (I got into trouble for just that talent in high school.) She asks me about my background, my education. She evaluates my posture (Stand up straighter!), my demeanor (there is a "slight current of negativity"), my conversational mannerisms (I put my hands on my face and forehead, a no-no). We are now in the Mom Zone, times 10. My gestures pass muster, except that I am told I am playing with my bracelet. "I get paid to pick. It's a great...
...because there's something about their game that Federer devours. But there's at least a handful who could knock him off on a given day. Beaten five times last year, Federer is flesh and blood, prone to the odd burst of mishits and tension-induced mistakes. A slight injury, a blazing hot day, a rotten night's sleep - any number of little distractions could level the playing field for a strong opponent, who might also just have a golden night like Russia's Marat Safin did in his semi-final against the Swiss in 2005. Federer's the percentage...
...very slight chance, though any optimism is based more on his remarkable competitive qualities than a clear-eyed assessment of his form. Now 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...