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...would have been an unremarkable exchange, if only the two men hadn't been live on the air, purportedly delivering television commentary on the Open for Italy's Tele+ cable network. This, however, was typically digressive banter from Clerici, 72, and Tommasi, 68. An announcing tandem for more than 20 years, they fill their broadcasts with more random ruminations, mutual dissing and off-color commentary than Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. "Even people who don't like tennis will watch them to hear what outrageous things they're saying and doing," says Rita Grande, an Italian currently ranked...
...gardens, pavilions, an open-air theater and even a zoo. Although the main entrance to the park is on Zhongyang Lu, I like to go in through Jiefang Men (Liberation Gate) as it is less touristy. Inside, you'll find old men fishing and people picnicking, paddleboating or riding tandem bicycles. (Bicycles and paddleboats can be rented for just more than a dollar an hour per person at concessions located throughout the park...
...common in rural Pakistan for local councils, called panchayats, to adjudicate minor disputes over land, water or honor; the system is supposed to work in tandem with local police. But these days the councils are veering out of control. Last week, a man acquitted of blasphemy by a Pakistani court was retried by a village committee in Punjab. A day later he was stoned to death by a crowd...
...smiling when they scoot back onto the platform, in smart half-turns that lead to a triple twist for her. Their movements are freer, more familiar; competition is giving way to camaraderie. For the first time the two touch, though only to push the other off into a tandem of quadruple spins. Facing each other at the end of the second dance chorus, they hop again, this time like gleefully agitated kids...
Following a team-wide training session over winter break in Jamaica that witnessed a defeat of the Jamaican national team, the doubles tandem of Patterson and Karlen became the national collegiate doubles champions at the George Cummings Invitational. It was the second major victory on the national level for the pair, which won the USSRAs two years...