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...purposefully left his glasses behind, forcing me to sail the entire time. The wind was incredibly strong, so the boat heeled sideways a lot, and every time I jibed—turned the back of the boat into the wind—I worried that as the sail swung across the boat it would take me with it. Lucky for me, my instructor believed that practice made perfect, so we jibed at every possible opportunity. Then my worst nightmare came true, and we crashed into a boat twice the size of ours that had suddenly appeared in our path...
...Clarence A. Wills took his quiet pig-tailed daughter to a sunny tennis court in Berkeley, Cal., and handed her a racquet which she swung at first like a nightstick. She missed the first ball. She changed her grip and hit the next one. Within a month she could defeat her father... Masculinity characterizes the Wills game. No woman hits a ball so hard. Whenever she can she practices with a man because "it is the best training, the men are naturally more strong, though not always so deft." Her training is strictly a personal matter. She dislikes to think...
...went quietly. A prison warden swung open the door to his 36-sq.-ft. cell and told him it was time to go. "Where?" Slobodan Milosevic asked softly. "The Hague," said the warden. Milosevic nodded, changed from his sweatsuit to an open-necked shirt, and joined his armed escort. They made their way through the central prison's corridors toward a small rear door, where a white-and-blue police van was waiting. He was whisked to a helicopter pad outside Belgrade and met by agents from the United Nations war-crimes tribunal. Six and a half hours later...
...Angeles for the Academy Awards, during which he'll wander about with a television crew and draw huge ratings back in Germany. Earlier today, however, at a gathering with Völkl retailers on a tennis court at a Miami resort, he picked up a racket and swung it behind and over his head, tossing an imaginary ball. "It's still there," one retailer said. Becker nodded...
...great to bring in an officer to institutionalize the collaboration. An officer gives a person a greater voice in PBHA," Windt says. "It will bring housing and advocacy issues to cabinet meetings. There's a feeling that housing and advocacy are on the fringes of PBHA because it's swung so totally toward direct service. It's so important to think beyond...