The Londoner gathered herself at the start of the second set and kept pace until game five, at which point a difficult task became all but impossible as Pennetta broke serve once again.

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From that point it was a difficult decision, but it wasn't a difficult decision for me because I just knew in my heart that the time was right and I was very happy and comfortable in what I had achieved and what I had done.

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In macro-land there is also a need for both to work together, but that has been difficult recently, in part because each point of view has taken on the aura of religious fervor.

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It's one of those things that isn't particularly hard to do, but is frightfully difficult to do well, mainly because you have to weight and execute a pass to a point on the pitch you can't actually see.

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Not because it would be too difficult, says Aaron Portnoy, a researcher at the security vulnerability tracking firm Tipping Point, but because it would be too easy.

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He went a long way in achieving that simply by not being George W. Bush, but it's difficult to point to real successes in fulfilling his pledge to exert moral leadership.

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