Tennis' New All-American Sweetheart
Danielle Friedman has worked as a nonfiction book editor for Hudson Street Press and Plume, two imprints of Penguin Group. Her writing has been published in the Miami Herald, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and on CNN.com. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
The feisty teenager from Marietta, Ga. has vaulted into the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open, dispatching elite Russians Maria Sharapova, Elena Dementieva, and Nadia Petrova along the way.
America's New Tennis Sweetheart
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Melanie Oudin, the feisty teenager from Marietta, Ga., has vaulted into the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open, dispatching elite Russians Maria Sharapova, Elena Dementieva, and Nadia Petrova along the way. VIEW OUR GALLERY of Oudin's victories.
Seventeen-year-old Melanie Oudin of Marietta, Ga., serves to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia during the first round of the U.S. Open on Sept. 1.
Paul Begala's U.S. Open Photo Diary
Paul Begala is a CNN political contributor and a research professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. He was a senior strategist for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and served as counselor to President Clinton in the White House.
Feisty American teenager Melanie Oudin dispatched Russian No. 4 Elena Dementieva, and The Daily Beast's Paul Begala caught all the action. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
A Victory for Georgia Mojo
Paul Begala is a CNN political contributor and a research professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. He was a senior strategist for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and served as counselor to President Clinton in the White House.
The Daily Beast's Paul Begala reports from Day 4 of the U.S. Open, where a plucky American teenager took down the No. 4 seed, Russian bombshell Elena Dementieva.
Why I Love Wimbledon
Condoleezza Rice is the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and professor of political science at Stanford University. From January 2005 to 2009, she served as the 66th secretary of state of the United States. Before that, she served as assistant to the president for national security affairs (national security advisor) from January 2001 to 2005.
As the fortnight comes to an end, The Daily Beast's Condoleezza Rice reflects on Roger Federer's hunt for a 15th Grand Slam event, the Venus and Serena's sisterly rivalry, and the classic Wimbledon matches of her youth. Plus: View our gallery of Classic Wimbledon
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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