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...most famous interviewer, the woman with a nose for celebrity revelations, the journalist who never saw a secret she couldn't coax out of a guest, would not be a party to leaving the juiciest dish from her book on the cutting-room floor. Or would she? Walters wouldn't comment. Her publicist, Cindi Berger, acknowledged that Walters "approved the abridged version of the book," but just didn't feel the love stuff was important enough to include. "The focus was just to be about her work," Berger explains. "The men in her life was not her priority...
...permitted to act effectively against that world. At the end of his adventures he must, somehow, triumph over the forces of darkness that surround him - but only accidentally so. That's why we identify with him; if he is one of us, we know perfectly well that we wouldn't last a minute against all those men in black wielding highly advanced weaponry. In that spirit of genial fantasy, we permit out surrogate that utter self-confidence, that sublime sangfroid, with which with he cheerfully motors his way around and through disaster. He's what we would...
...challenge for Ivanovic: in 1999 NATO launched air strikes against Belgrade to halt President Slobodan Milosevic's campaign of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. On the first night of bombing, Ivanovic and her family hid in a cellar. "But we had the windows glued, you know," she says, "so they wouldn't go into little pieces." While she was spending time with her grandparents, a bomb exploded less than a mile from their apartment...
...kept playing tennis through the turmoil. "I still remember the rules," she says. "If you start a match and the bombs come, you have to keep playing. But if the danger was there, you wouldn't start new matches." So much for child safety. "It was a risk," says Ivanovic's youth coach, Dejan Vranes, in the understatement of the Grand Slam season. "But people in the city did their jobs. No one hid in their house...
...There was a time when clay-court [specialists] wouldn't even make the trip [to England]," Bjorkman said after losing to Nadal at the Artois Championships, a warm-up event for Wimbledon. "Now they hardly even need to adjust their game...