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...Lonely At the Top Prosper, o country, in unbreakable unity," says Belgium's national anthem. But the country's tennis stars aren't singing that tune. Last month, Kim Clijsters became Belgium's first-ever World No. 1, and Justine Henin-Hardenne won its first Grand Slam titles at the French and U.S. Opens. But their on-court success has been overshadowed by a rivalry that smells nothing like team spirit. The rocky relations between Clijsters, 20, and Henin-Hardenne, 21, roughly parallel the dividing lines in Belgian society. Clijsters, from the Flemish-speaking north, and Henin-Hardenne, from...
...sidelines, citing a lower-back infection - though, oddly, she will play in the season-ending Tour Championships two weeks before. So Belgium finds itself temporarily back in the position of underdog. Its likely leader is Els Callens, ranked No. 103 and winner of zero WTA Tour titles. Prosper, O country, indeed. Hold Your Horses, Take A Call They ride 329 days of the year, often at racetracks hundreds of kilometers apart, and need to keep in touch with trainers and agents to arrange their rides. So when British jockeys heard that the sport's ruling body proposed to bar them...
Live Long and Prosper "It is evident that the simple Asian arithmetic for a long life is to take happiness, subtract tension, divide worries and multiply exercise." K. Chidanand Kumar Bangalore, India...
Pity Hong Kong, for even as the city struggles in the face of regional and global economic forces, another, even more dreaded scourge casts Hong Kong's future in mortal and economic doubt. Cities evolve and prosper or wither and vanish just as individual species do. The causes of that urban selection are economic, geographical and biological, and an unlucky confluence of the three can lead to a Darwinian dead end. Herodotus already observed in the 5th century B.C. that "the cities that were formerly great, have most of them become insignificant; and such as are at present powerful, were...
...eventually found support in University Hall, and a radical policy change was not far behind. After her initiative, men’s and women’s sports at Harvard now receive equal funding, and the women’s sports programs have continued to prosper...