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Resolving the troubles in doubles is the most visible example of how the straight-shooting South African is reinventing this most conservative sport. Bob Bryan, one of the pros who initiated the lawsuit along with his twin brother Mike--they're the top doubles team in the world--now lobs compliments via e-mail: "He's a cool guy who doesn't need this gig. He just wants to help tennis and the tour...
...Leonid Hambro, 86, brilliant concert pianist with a superhuman memory; in New York City. He dazzled with a 1952 performance at New York City's Town Hall, for which he had to learn complex works in less than a day. But the Julliard alum found broadest appeal as the straight man to funnyman-pianist Victor Borge, with whom he performed for 10 years, starting...
...scene straight out of a Hong Kong gangster flick. On a November morning in 2002, local property tycoon Harry (Cigar) Lam was enjoying breakfast in his usual spot at Luk Yu Tea House, a Hong Kong institution famed for its tasty dim sum and indifferent service. At about 9 a.m., a nearby diner paid for his meal, walked up to Lam's table and killed him with a gunshot to the head...
...roles to great comic effect.Kevin Barlowski, a senior at Emerson, is one of these cast members. There is a big difference between telling a funny joke and being funny, being a source of humor rather than a conduit for it. As Richie, Barlowski’s humor came straight from the spleen (the funniest internal organ I can think of). As a result, “Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love”—a strange song that is mostly about puberty (disclaimer: I have no idea what this song is actually about...
...Setting the Record Straight • Lost in Translation An Oct. 2 story on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez incorrectly stated that he thought linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky was dead, an allusion to mistranslated remarks Chávez made at a news conference. What Chávez said was, "I am an avid reader of Noam Chomsky, as I am of an American professor who died some time ago." Later Chávez identified the professor as Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who died in April...