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...book, Strokes of Genius, L. Jon Wertheim reconstructs the 2008 Wimbledon final between Switzerland's Roger Federer and Spain's Rafael Nadal. That epic match - which took more than seven waterlogged hours to complete and ended with a Nadal victory in near darkness - is widely considered to be the greatest tennis match ever played. Strokes of Genius uses the match as a scaffolding to talk about the two tennis greats, their rivalry and the sport's beauty. TIME caught up with Wertheim, Sports Illustrated's tennis writer, as he prepared to cover Wimbledon 2009, which began on June...
...TIME's Short List review of Wertheim's book...
What did you learn about these two champions while writing the book...
...that has grown, in part, out of the chaos on land, non-African countries consistently reject the notion of intervening onshore. This is partly out of fear of the consequences: a U.N.-backed U.S. intervention in Somalia in 1993 cost 18 American lives in events later portrayed in the book and film Black Hawk Down...
...divert criticism from the controversy over filtering software. "It doesn't seem like a coincidence that [the attack on Google] comes amid mounting criticism of Green Dam, whose ostensible purpose is to block porn," says Rebecca MacKinnon, a former Beijing bureau chief for CNN who is writing a book about the Internet in China. "Now they're trying to show what a bad job Google does in protecting China's children...