FROM LEFT FIELD.Hewitt's only a teenager and will surely mature, but it's a fair effort to (a) not only play magnificent tennis but (b) also make such a goose of yourself that those same fair-minded observers could almost feel sorry for the Russian, Almost. but not quite. The 18-year-old has inevitably skipped a lot of classes in recent years, but when Newk and co have calmed down they should quietly point young Lleyton towards another L-word. Library Anything on World War II will suffice. Hewitt may stumble upon a bloke called Churchill; just another Pom who couldn't play tennis but whose thoughts on defiance in defeat and magnanimity mag·na·nim·i·ty n. pl. mag·na·nim·i·ties 1. The quality of being magnanimous. 2. A magnanimous act. Noun 1. in victory may be worth pondering as he traverses the globe. (To digress di·gress intr.v. di·gressed, di·gress·ing, di·gress·es To turn aside, especially from the main subject in writing or speaking; stray. See Synonyms at swerve. , readers may have noticed this newspaper's Chip Le Grand filing stories on Yevgeny "The Big Potato" Kafelnikov. Life imitating art Life imitating art is the reverse of the normal process whereby art is made to resemble life. The concept derives from an Oscar Wilde aphorism, "Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. , or are they in fact, the same person? Whatever -- shocking pun pun, use of words, usually humorous, based on (a) the several meanings of one word, (b) a similarity of meaning between words that are pronounced the same, or (c) the difference in meanings between two words pronounced the same and spelled somewhat similarly, e.g. warning -- it's a [ILLEGIBLE il·leg·i·ble adj. Not legible or decipherable. il·leg  i·bil TEXT] weird coincidence.)
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