Nadal was playing on red clay, which for him is like wrapping himself in a childhood blanket.

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It would have been difficult for him to have chosen two heirs apparent more like himself.

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But the 39-year-old Rosedale--whose blue eyes and spiky blonde hair make him look a bit like a Second Life avatar himself--says he's not going anywhere.

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The company took a hit in 1988 when lie-detector tests were made illegal for employment purposes, so Argenbright, who says it made him "focus like a blowtorch, " threw himself into building the aviation services and security business.

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And my only advice that I could give him is when he becomes the National Security Advisor, he finds himself a deputy just like he was to me.

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In his books "It's Only Temporary, " and "Time on Fire, " Handler wrote that during his months in the hospital, he was given intravenous drugs that were supposed to go to another patient, that nurses tried to give him medications his doctors had forbidden for him and that staff members refused to follow the hospital's posted hygiene precautions for immunosuppressed patients like himself.

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After divorcing his second wife, the romance writer Danielle Steel, in 1999, he began writing himself, and embarked on a novel about the amorous exploits of a rich financier much like him.

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Fyi, a narcissist may learn to approximate such behaviors as they seem like a good idea to him, and may also love his children because he sees them as an extension of himself.

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