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...toward a victory. But this time, Serena, 19--the more powerful but less disciplined player--turned it on at the beginning. Venus, 21 and still the more well-rounded, controlled strategist, broke her sister's serve in the fifth game of the first set. Serena's face, already locked stiff, became even more intense as she struggled, double-faulting the break point on her next service. "She's too competitive," said Venus before the tournament began. "She takes it to an extreme. That could be her weakness." After a week of controlled play, Serena melted into a puddle...
...stock market has been dishing out more stiff lessons than a cranky schoolteacher back from summer break. Five months after what just about everyone figured was a bottom, stock indexes are plunging anew. Last week the Standard & Poor's 500 dipped below its April 4 low, and it has now erased more than three years' worth of gains. The NASDAQ and Dow are flirting with their April lows...
...Most people seem to like the Koizumi they see. What's not to like about this touchy-feely New Age leader who is the antithesis of the stiff old pols who preceded him? Economists at home and abroad laud the clear-eyed reformer who recognizes that the system stinks?and says he will take a sledgehammer to it. Fellow world leaders wish they had his approval ratings, which stand at about 70%. "Whatever you're doing," George W. Bush told Koizumi during his July visit to Camp David, "I envy those numbers." The Japanese can't get enough...
...small statement. Music in Brazil is like sunlight: it's natural, it's elemental, it illuminates every building, every river bend, every aspect of life. "Dancing and music are in our blood," says William Nadir, 23, a Sao Paulo motorcycle deliveryman. "You can spot strangers by the stiff way they move their hips...
Making a protest you can party to is tough. Michael Franti and Spearhead's latest album, Stay Human, ambitiously incorporates a running play about a Mumia Abu-Jamal-like death-penalty case; the results are music as stiff and analysis as thin as the CD they're burned onto. But it does point to a potential flash point for the revival of protest music in the West: capital punishment in particular and law enforcement in general are bringing together black and white artists as few issues have since apartheid. The New York City police shooting of African immigrant Amadou Diallo...