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...European Union, sumptuous chocolates and moules/frites, Belgium is staking a claim as a powerhouse of women's tennis. Two weeks ago, in the French Open women's singles final, Belgians Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin-Hardenne faced each other across the net, with Henin-Hardenne running out the winner 6-0, 6-4. The match was not only the first-ever all-Belgian final, it sealed the women's places as second and third in the world rankings, sandwiched between the Williams sisters. Belgians, naturally, were over the moon, giving Henin-Hardenne a city-hall welcome in Brussels. This...
...Royal Haymarket, playing the puritanical priest of Brand. "You have to rehearse and play Ibsen at a high temperature or the cake won't rise," says its director, Adrian Noble. "That's an extraordinary strain and amazing challenge for an actor like Ralph." And the ethereal Richardson, Tony Award-winner and daughter of Vanessa Redgrave, essays another marathon role in The Lady from the Sea at the Almeida. (The fourth Ibsen play, Ingmar Bergman's production of Ghosts, had a brief London run at the Barbican in May.) None of these plays is easy for performer or audience, especially...
...getting just African images, African people, African heroes, African music," says Carl Fischer, head of local production at M-Net. "It makes business sense: African content attracts subscribers." Big Brother Africa is actually the third iteration of the program; the first two featured South African contestants only and the winners were both white men. But the shows were so popular in the rest of Africa - fan clubs sprang up from Nairobi to Lagos - that the third series draws contestants from a dozen African countries. Because of massive population differences among countries, a one-viewer, one-vote policy for the show...
...Dylan were huge all year for us,” he said. “We were a pretty young team and those two guys just taught us how to compete and showed us what it takes to be a winner the entire season...
Spanning the fall and spring seasons, sailing has multiple national championships in different sailing formats, the combined scores of which decide the winner of the Fowle Trophy. And although Harvard came up short against rival Tufts on more than one occasion near the end of the 2001-2002 season, it is now in a strong position to challenge for a repeat title...