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Just witnessed a Great Wimbledon Mens Final !…Great Champion,Roger Federer wins a Five setter and a record Fifteen Grand Slam Title

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There was Magic on the Centre Court at Wimbledon today…over Four Hours of it ! Two Magicians,Two Gladiators, and Two Great Athletes,mentally and physically tough,Roger Federer and Andy Roddick,entertained us like never before It was the Mens Singles Finals….and Roger Federer beat Andy Roddick in a thrilling and pulsating five setter 5-7,7-6,7-6,3-6 and would you believe it …

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Tennis Coach,Nick Bollettieri asserts you have to be Mean to be a good Competitor…I don’t agree !

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Says World Celebrity Tennis Coach, American Nick Bollettieri about Indian Tennis Kids who attended his Academy ” I remember that the kids who came here were too nice.The trend in your country is to be very polite.But sometimes you also have to be mean to be a good competitor.This is not easy for Indians ”  Hey,Nick !I …

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How to Misuse Warren Buffett !…learn from the Chinese !

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Would you believe this !  A 37 year old Chinese businessman,Zhao Danyang paid a record US $ 2.1 Million to win an eBay charity auction last year to lunch with legendary Investor,Warren E Buffett at a steakhouse in New York City Just a day before the lunch on June 24,2009,Zhao Danyang played the Media by telling them …

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Another Lovely Sunday……Lovely Weather helps lovely unwinding

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After Heavy Rains yesterday,the weather has been kinder this Sunday and rather lovely too with the sun playing hide and seek in an overcast sky…I’m enjoying it Just the right prescription to help relax after a long Geography Revison Session with my daughter..She’s in the Eight and her First Comprehensives begin tomorrow….Did you know that the …

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USSR broke up physically in 1991…USA is breaking up economically now

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It’s Uncanny really ! Two super Powers,USSR and USA being brought to their knees….the former suffering,both, physical and economic disintegration and the latter in the midst of it’s worst economic crisis…self inflicted,I daresay. Breaking up of USSR in 1991 Vladimir Lenin founded the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR for short in 1918.It was …

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A Weekend sandwiched between two Bong Budgets

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No Disrespect,but we find ourselves sandwiched on this weekend between two Bong ‘JEE’ Budgets From Friday’s Narrow and Metre Track Railway Budget by Mamta Baner’JEE’ , we move to Monday’s Broad Gauge Union Budget by Pranab Mukher’JEE’….gauge reference is  in context of scale and content both. Yesterday, i.e. Friday,we had Trinamool Congress’ Mamta Banerjee,Railway Minister in this UPA …

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