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Dench: Actually, I thought, Yes, that's exactly how I was as a younger woman. I may look like an old bag now, but that's exactly what I was like...
...policies in Africa are turning people off" and have quietly turned to the U.S. and Britain for help in devising foreign-aid policies. A former senior U.S. official says Chinese officials have been closely monitoring the growing international distaste over its support for the Sudanese government. Congressman Lantos says younger Chinese diplomats "are embarrassed that the Chinese government is prepared to do any business with Sudan for oil despite what is happening in Darfur." Slowly, slowly, engagement with China, debate with its leaders--and the hope that as they see more of the world, they will understand why so many...
...balls with a four-time majors winner is too good to miss. Dressed in traditional white, Cooper takes his place on one side of a friend's court in the middle of a Brisbane scorcher. Any fears for the legend's health evaporate after 10 minutes' rallying, when the younger man is drenched in perspiration while Cooper might have been playing checkers in the shade. "You hit a nice ball," he flatters. "You play the modern way-topspin forehand and double-handed backhand." Cooper's style is an echo of a game no longer seen on the courts of elite...
...where he's tended to sting Federer. But in recent years Melbourne Park's Rebound Ace courts haven't played a lot faster than the red stuff - and despite noises to the contrary they're apparently playing more or less the same this year. Nadal, at 20 five years younger than Federer, went off the boil in the second half of last year and hasn't started this year in sensational touch; he also withdrew with a groin strain from last week's warm-up event in Sydney. But Federer would still regard him as the main obstacle...
...taking up a playground pastime made popular by little girls. Marcus Taylor, who taught lead actor Corbin Bleu his rope-skipping skills for the film, says the same thing used to happen to him while he was growing up. "I got teased all the time when I was younger," says Taylor, 20, who went on to become a world champion rope jumper in 2004. Now when people poke fun at him, Taylor just takes out his rope and wows them with his gravity-defying jumps, flips and tricks. "I know that jump roping is so cool," he says, adding that...