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Later, he strolls through half a century of great players. Hoad and Rod Laver, of course ... John McEnroe possessed an unrivaled finesse, but Cooper couldn't forgive him his antics. Pete Sampras was probably "the best grass-court player of all time." The clear favorite to win in Melbourne is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Courtly Player | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

But reasonable kids who turn into very smart sportswriters have a weakness for moralizing. There's nothing that excites a sports commentator like a basketball player fighting, a football player caught with pot or a boxer's DUI. Sportswriters are on the far right of the culture wars, reactionaries longing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McGwire's Big Whiff | 1/8/2007 | See Source »

The Bush war room is going to war with itself. Beginning this month, the young White House and Bush-Cheney-campaign operatives who in 2004 monitored constant live feeds of candidate John Kerry and then mercilessly tormented him about his weakness for shrimp vindaloo, kite surfing and Sun Valley are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Tactics, New Team | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

In addition, he's tried to shore up his big weakness, a lack of foreign policy experience, by taking trips to Uganda and India, boning up on foreign affairs so much he seemed downright thrilled to drop the names of the leaders of Iran and North Korea in responding to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kickoff for John Edwards 2.0 | 12/29/2006 | See Source »

Critics had their own knives out when Hannibal Rising was published last week. They panned it with vigor and a near-unanimous weakness for cannibal puns. ("An indigestible back story!" "Toothless prequel!" "Hard to swallow!") Of the reviewers I've read, only Malcolm Jones over at Newsweek found some favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Becoming Hannibal Lecter | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

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