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lect that type of criticism, Navratilova has played down her latest revival, saying one of the reasons for wanting to play in Paris was to improve her doubles game.Just practicing for the singles helps my doubles, she told reporters following a secondround doubles defeat at a tournament last week in Rome. So that's the idea behind it. I just wanted to get more match play and this is one way to do it. Navratilova has said she will retire from all competitive tennis at the end of 2004.Players on the tour cannot help respecting Navratilova's storied career. She retired as the most accomplished singles player in WTA history, setting career records with 1,438 wins in 1,650 matches and $20,344,061 in prize money. In 2000, she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. And last year, she teamed up with Leander Paes in mixed doubles to win her 20th Wimbledon title  the oldest champion at one of tennis's four Grand Slams.Serena Williams, the top seed at Roland Garros, welcomed Navratilova's return. It's grea
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 bernatorial election this year.This is a huge event. It may be the biggest corruption case ever in the state of Illinois in terms of its significance, says Christopher Mooney, a political science professor at the University of Illinois in Springfield.On Monday, jury members found Governor Ryan guilty of all 18 counts against him  including racketeering, mail fraud, tax fraud, and making false statements to the FBI. The verdict caps a lengthy trial and a farreaching federal investigation that has resulted in 75 convictions over nearly eight years.Most of the charges against Ryan  known nationally for his crusade against the death penalty  stemmed from his days as Illinois secretary of state. He held that post from 1991 to 1999. Prosecutors used reams of evidence and testimony  in the absence of a single smoking gun  to show that the former governor had accepted cash, gifts, and vacations for himself and his family in exchange for granting lucrative state contracts. The evidence also suggested Ryan had squeezed emp
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 ld letters. It's one of the reasons Mr. Lopez and other prominent Latino Democrats are here to cross party lines and support Mr. Pataki.The Lopez endorsement illustrates the quiet transformation of one of the nation's most prominent governors. Mr. Pataki, elected as a conservative eight years ago, is now seeking moderate Democrat votes to win his third term.He is making inroads into the constituency of his main opponent, Democrat Carl McCall, by making deals with unions, funneling money into minority communities, and supporting healthcare issues. Last week, he even won the approval of a homosexual group, which had never backed a Republican.It is a remarkable change for a politician whose main issue eight years ago was bringing back the death penalty.It's been quite a transformation for George Pataki, says Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. He's gone from a conservative republican who defeated Mario Cuomo to the left of his own party.Unexpected transformationThe extent of Pataki's pol
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 adership with more intelligence than we've ever done before.Mark Mansfield, a CIA spokesman, says he can't be specific, but, Are we deploying more officers in the fieldYes.And in terms of language capabilities, Mr. Mansfield says the agency is making great strides. The number of Arabic speakers at the CIA has tripled in the past five years or so, he says. Recruiting people with language capabilities has been, and continues to be, a top priority.Still, rebuilding human intelligence is an involved, difficult business.The intelligence community will turn itself inside out to continue recruiting more diverse and talented people, says Judith Yaphe, a former CIA analyst now at the National Defense University. But she cautions that the selection and training process is long and tedious.She also points out that, yes, there has been a huge jump in new hires. But a vast number of people  with advanced skills and training ability  have taken early retirements as well.You've got to balance how many come in with how many ha
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