Andy Murray beat each of the world's top three players – Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer (three times) and Novak Djokovic – and reached his first grand slam final at the US Open in New York, his deeds and words throughout the year disproving the conventional wisdom that all great tennis players of the modern era need to arrive at the top level fully fledged.
"The new BRIC era has yet to arrive," Jim Yardley writes in The New York Times ahead of the meeting of the group's leaders in New Delhi Thursday.
There are all these commitment crossroads, where you sign up or opt out, and in this marketing-saturated era of ours, they seem to arrive more frequently and noisily, a function of the velocity with which passions ping around a digital universe.
We did not need to arrive at the era of atom-splitting and wave-particle duality, then, in order for the paradoxes inherent in matter to make themselves known (is it infinitely divisible or isn't it?
It turned out to be the dress uniform and presentation sword of Admiral Sir James Alexander Gordon, the officer who laid the Namur timbers to rest – and ended an era – when he arrived to take command of Chatham dockyard by steam launch.
The Human Genome Project was heralded as ushering in a new era of personalized medicine -- but that era might not arrive as early as hoped.
In the magical script before me, I was transported to another era, where guests arrived for no reason but to connect, and were forced to stay for dinner.
Instead the government insists most are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and classifies them as Bengalis, even though some claim roots before the colonial era – when thousands did arrive – to as far back as the 15th century when the Arakan kingdom was famed for its cosmopolitan openness.
If the orthodox left has failed to unite behind the prime minister, the right is also in a state of ferment, as it plots eagerly for a post-Renzi era that could arrive before Christmas.
Two young women – one born and raised in Iowa, the other in New Hampshire, both children of the internet era – arrive at the same conclusion: the first-in-the-nation contests that they've grown up with have increasingly lost their relevance.
