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...Just as Venus and Serena Williams have aced women's tennis and Michael Schumacher is way out in front of the Formula One championship, a quiet 32-year-old Irishman is riding roughshod over British Isles flat racing. Aidan O'Brien's horses have such a record of winning big races that other trainers are now almost reluctant to put their charges up against them. When O'Brien entered his colt Hawk Wing in the prestigious Eclipse Stakes at Sandown, England, a week ago, with stablemate Sholokhov as his pacemaker, they faced only three other horses. Hawk Wing and Sholokhov...
...seeds had gone, while in the women's side of the draw six of the top 16 had been knocked out. But some things remained unchanged. World No. 1 and top seed Lleyton Hewitt of Australia powered on through the draw. The Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, kept up the winning ways that have made them the world's top two women players. And Anna Kournikova lost in the first round. It was the 10th first-round defeat this year for Kournikova, who found yet another loss so galling that when a BBC interviewer suggested that her confidence must...
...long as his daughters have been playing tennis, Richard Williams has been saying that they were destined to dominate the sport. Williams p?re's optimism was finally justified when Venus and Serena made it to No. 1 and 2 in the world rankings after contesting the French Open final. Serena's win and Venus' runner-up slot gave them the points to head the list. It could be a long time before anyone dislodges them. Since little sister Serena - she is 15 months younger and 12 cm shorter than Venus - won the U.S. Open in 1999, the sibling rivals' world...
Goya and images of women? We may suppose we know something about that, having seen The Naked Maja, 1797-1800, one of the most famous woman images in art next to the Mona Lisa: the second most famous nude in Spain after Velazquez's Rokeby Venus, and the first with pubic hair. She was not, by the way, the Duchess of Alba, with whom--contrary to legend--Goya almost certainly had no sexual affair. She, like her companion piece The Clothed Maja, 1800-05, was most probably a Malagan cutie named Pepita Tudo, the mistress of Prime Minister Manuel Godoy...
...Duke Is Tops, "a genial backstage story about a producer who lets his prot?g? find her own way to stardom. The ing?nue was played by 20-year-old Lena Horne, in her movie debut. When Horne was signed by MGM, the film was rereleased, this time as "The Bronze Venus;" Horne's name was now at the top, Cooper's in agate print below. Cooper would emcee Amateur Night at the Apollo Theatre for 50 years; at the end of which he could still boogaloo and scooby-doo like an octogenarian Michael Jackson...