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...someone out on a day pass, Richard taught his daughters tennis from instructional videos he had bought. While living in Compton, Calif., with little money, he said he was flipping channels and saw Romanian player Virginia Ruzici win a $35,000 check. He then hid his wife's birth-control pills in order to create a tennis player. He says he even got a friend to steal her purse so she wouldn't have her pills. In a new book, Venus Envy, Richard tells author L. Jon Wertheim that he owns the air rights over India, has a seat...
Assassination is a terrific idea. And from the Palestinian point of view, getting rid of that warmonger Ariel Sharon could only be a blessing. Oh, and the Pope's anti-birth control stand is just a little much, don't you think? Or maybe we should just sit down and try to work out our differences. That is what Krauthammer should be writing about. JAMES MILLS Hanover...
...batters in a row in a first-round World Series win, the first perfect game in a series since 1957; won the other three games he pitched; and helped the All-Stars finish third out of 16 teams. A SPORTS ILLUSTRATED reporter unearthed a copy of Danny's real birth certificate in his hometown, and by the time politicians were embracing the team at a city hall rally, everyone who wasn't on the stage was talking about the controversy. Then the New York Daily News revealed that Danny did not go to P.S. 70, as his father had claimed...
...building measures" like land transfers, let alone the big concessions on Jerusalem and refugees needed to ink a major deal. In Sharon's mind--and doubtless in that of many others who remember the War of Independence--such issues touch on the very nature of the state for whose birth they fought more than 50 years ago. These days, for Ariel Sharon, Israel's past isn't prologue; in fact, it isn't even the past...
China got a third helping of "double happiness" last month when a giant panda named No. 20 gave birth to twins at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Research Center in Sichuan province. It was the latest blessed event in what is shaping up as a banner year for the woefully endangered species. No. 20 was the third artificially inseminated panda to bear twins since July, and there are about a dozen other expectant moms in the province, most of them living in specially built, air-conditioned delivery rooms to protect their payloads. In a rare show of environmental goodwill...