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...seen." Federer's volleys, awe-inspiring angled shots, and fluid one-handed backhand recall a bygone serve-and-volley era before today's high-tech racquets encouraged players to grip and rip missiles from the baseline. Says veteran tennis broadcaster Bud Collins: "He looks as though he woke up from a time capsule...
When Bill Clinton found himself approaching the age of 60 on Aug. 19, people detected a hint of sourness from the second youngest ex-President in American history. "For most of my working life, I was the youngest person doing whatever I was doing, then one day I woke up and I was the oldest person in the room," he told the International AIDS Conference in Toronto last week. Although he may wax nostalgic for years past, he has also been keeping an eye on his future. Ever since he left office, the former President has been on an almost...
...thunderclap-at least that's what it sounded like-woke the whole of Normanton. Still in his pajamas, the police sergeant rushed to the river bank, where a group of local men-"practical jokers," says Wolfgang Arneth, who's telling the story-were drinking rum. "What are you silly bastards up to now?" the cop said. "We're going to be famous,'' came the reply. "We've sent a man into space...
...were asleep and we woke up to bombs falling on us," says Noor Hashem, 13, a niece of Abbas Hashem, speaking from a bed in the government-run hospital in Tyre, six miles northwest of Qana. Noor, who wears a brown headscarf, says she had been sleeping beside her older sister Zeinab and a cousin. They fled the shattered building and ran to her aunt's house nearby where they waited six hours before the rescue services could reach them. Her mother went to look for her three brothers - Mahdi, 7, Jaafar, 12, and Abbas, nine months - and Noor says...
...education. But, above all, my life here has made me appreciative of my right to speak out. I’ve been thinking a lot about Harvard, too. There, undergrads are renowned for our ability to complain about our social lives, academic advisors, dining halls, and whatever else we woke up wanting to whine about. This attitude of self-entitlement used to drive me crazy; now, I can’t wait to wake up to the complaints of a crotchety student body. Because we can, and because of what it represents for the wider world, Harvard students, stand...