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...first, he served to open the match, but tinned on a backhand rail and fell behind 5-0 before Donegan hit the tin to give the serve back to Broadbent. Broadbent won the next four points and eight of the next nine to take an 8-6 lead, but Donegan took the final four to jump out to a 1-0 lead...
...second game, Duboc made it 10 straight before hitting the tin twice to give Eyre a point. After two Duboc tallies, Eyre notched four straight points to take the 5-3 lead before letting a shot get away from her high to give the serve back. Duboc tied the score at five, but then sent her own shot high and relinquished the serve. Eyre nosed ahead at 6-5, but Duboc took two points to give herself the lead. Eyre recovered to tie it at seven, but Duboc took two in a row to take the second game...
...Economic Cycle Research Institute index, which began in 1949. How can individual investors profit from the rush? Analysts don't recommend esoteric futures and options, which are subject to vagaries like war and weather. A more prudent option, analysts say, is buying stock in companies that supply copper and tin, or an exchange-traded fund like the Materials Select Sector SPDR Trust, which rose 32% this year. --By Sean Gregory
...other view, though, is more worrying: that the Bush Administration has such limited central control over policy that officials can say what they like, when they like, without anyone attempting to coordinate a coherent message. That would not matter if Washington were the capital of a tin-pot nation of little consequence; it does when it's the capital of the world's only superpower, on whose actions countless millions depend. It's not brains you need to figure that out but a small dose of common sense. Not much of that in evidence last week. --With reporting by Matthew...
Gloomy Sunday was an international pop hit of 1933, written by a couple of denizens of the Hungarian equivalent of Tin Pan Alley and made famous in the U.S. by Billie Holiday. The movie of the same title imagines a more romantic genesis. It has the piece written by a broody piano player (Stefano Dionisi) at a restaurant as a seemingly hopeless love offering to its manager (Erika Marozsan), who is the mistress of its wry, civilized owner (Joachim Krol...