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...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...
...onto modern, glitzy ships, where the casinos start at 8 a.m., the discos are hopping until the wee hours, but the library opens for only an hour a day. Arison is hoping that Carnival's mass-market formula can be adapted from short cruises in warm climates to the sterner waters of the North Atlantic without destroying the romantic aura of transatlantic crossings...
...their girlfriends. Rotten luck. Then their 401(k)s tank, and their dogs get run over. Argh. But while Jack spirals into despair, Joe takes his losses and eventually bounces back. How do you explain the difference? Depression may seem to be a matter of who's made of sterner stuff, but a new study shows that genes play an important role. Researchers have found that individuals with the short version of a particular gene involved in the production of a key brain chemical are more than twice as likely to get depressed in the aftermath of a stressful event...
...predecessors were made of sterner stuff. Nor, despite his nickname, was Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-92) the biggest patron of the clan. That honor belongs to his great-grandson, Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-74), the linchpin of this show. He was installed as the first Grand Duke of Tuscany after his uncle Allesandro de' Medici was murdered. He had an obsessive desire for magnificenza and was determined to outdo his ancestor--which, in terms of cultural spending, he did. Never had art and secular politics been brought closer together than in late Medicean Florence. Cosimo's patronage dominated...
...that British jihadis were not the only Europeans gravitating to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. A reformation of sorts is under way in the Islamic world and, much as in the European one five centuries ago, a militant puritanism is on the rise. Europe has not been spared. A sterner form of the religion - one that demands universal application of Shari'a, asserts the superiority of Islam and rejects assimilation with non-Muslim societies - is supplanting the more flexible faith that long prevailed in the diaspora. Fueled by Wahhabi funds from the Persian Gulf and a radical interpretation...