| Local unseeded teen wins USTA title
High-level tennis was on display in the area this month from juniors in national tournaments, to men in Super Senior Grand Prix contests, to aspiring women professionals. Unseeded Danielle Collins, 14, won six straight-set matches to claim the USTA National Open singles title in the girls 18-and-under division, held in Tampa. In the final, Collins upset the No. 1 seed 6-2, 6-2. "When I went in the tournament, I hoped to win my first-round match," Collins said. "She was the No. 1 girl in the country in the 14s, and I hadn't seen her in a few years. Once I beat her, I felt confident and thought I could win it all." No. 2 seed Julia Jones in girls 14 played past the competition in singles, clinching the national open title with a 6-4, 6-1 win over the No.
February 2008
I gather it's something of a group blog for the magazine's staff, but so far it looks like it's mainly an outlet for the slightly off-kilter rants of the magazine's associate editor (and WEEKLY STANDARD contributor) Reihan Salam. Here's his take on Prince Harry: ...Perhaps the real trouble is that men of royal blood, by their nature, need new lands to conquer. Why not give Prince Harry a crack contingent of Gurkha fighting men and set him loose on some war-ravaged region, where he can establish his own princely state as a latter-day white rajah? Consider Canada, a nation torn by ethnic strife and religious hatred, where daily life has become a miserable struggle to survive amidst endless gun battles waged by rival gangs of crazed ice-dancing rebels and the soaring loonie has sent the economy into a tailspin.
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