Davenport downs local hero
The News Review:
- Davenport downs local hero
- My favourite superhero
- Lindsay’s serve saves her
- Shanghai hunts for overseas staff
- Blues deal a pair of aces
Davenport downs local hero
news24.com – Jan 26, 2005
Top seed Davenport advanced to a semi-final with 19th-seeded Frenchwoman Nathalie Dechy on Thursday after downing 10th seed Molik 6-4 4-6 9-7 in a gruelling 2hr 33min battle. Davenport, chasing her fourth career grand slam title, looked to have squandered victory when she had her serve broken by Molik after holding match point at 5-4 in the final set. The next four games went with serve, but Davenport scored the all-important break to take an 8-7 lead and then recovered from 15-40 down in the 16th game to hold serve and seal victory. Melbourne-based Molik, bidding to become the first Australian to win the singles title here since Chris O'Neil 27 years ago, had benefited from raucous home support enjoying Australia Day holiday celebrations.
My favourite superhero
Al-Ahram Weekly – Jan 26, 2005
Farid Tadros, a 27-year-old business analyst and regular reader, is among many who appreciate the initiative. "It was about time," he says. Superman and Batman comics may be better written, he concedes (they have fewer mistakes and stronger plots), but AK Comics are still preferable — because they are home grown. "The setting is familiar and most characters’ names are Arabic," he says, "it’s just easier to connect. " Zein, the Last Pharaoh, is a philosophy professor; such is his designation in everyday life. In his secret life, however, he will "fight till the end of time" — a promise he made to his father thousands of years ago. He is so muscular that the Pharaonic beetle print on his tight T-shirt looks ridiculously small in comparison to his overblown sinews.
Lindsay’s serve saves her
Cape Argus – Cape Argus (subscription) – Jan 26, 2005
The top-seeded Davenport fought back from a mid-match slump to hold off the 10th-seeded local hope 6-4 4-6 9-7. It put her in a semi-final against Nathalie Dechy of France. Davenport faltered badly at the end of the second and third sets with a string of unforced errors, but clung on to ruin Australia Day celebrations for a capacity crowd. Molik was playing in her first grand slam quarter-final and had been un-beaten in 12 matches this year.
Shanghai hunts for overseas staff
chinadaily.com.cn – Jan 26, 2005
In the meantime, officials have revealed that the local government will improve management and service systems for overseas Chinese and foreign experts who have been working in the city, whether they are top-level staff or just ordinary workers. Municipal bureaux including public security, labour and social security and taxation will offer them 24-hour services. While absorbing more professionals with global vision, the local government will also nurture more home-grown staff with international perspectives by sending them abroad. Ding said the bureau was in talks with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania on training officials. The municipality is also in talks with the Singaporean and German governments and world-leading companies like GE, Siemens, PWC concerning human resources training programmes.
Blues deal a pair of aces
manchesteronline.co.uk – Jan 26, 2005
“It will be a gamble as we see Nedum as cover for us along the back, apart from goalkeeper of course but we want the Youth side to do well, we want them to keep progressing and we want those youngsters coming through. “They are doing a terrific job the people at the Academy and we have to help them all we can and not put barriers in the way and that is what we try and do. I think the lads will get a good crowd tonight as I believe the fans always want home grown youngsters through into the senior side. “It has been underlined this season but I think two or three of them are probably ahead of where they should be in what I would call normal circumstances. Pleasing “But to be fair some of them have proved us wrong and done better than we thought they would and that is always pleasing. City breezed past West Brom 4-1 in the third round when central defender Onuoha got forward to get himself on the score sheet. Blues Academy director Jim Cassell, who has seen the Wright-Phillips brothers, Joey Barton, Stephen Jordan, Onuoha, Willo Flood and Jonathan D’Laryea all graduate to the first team over the past two seasons, has personally checked out the opposition.