There was little apocalyptic about the tennis happenings of the weekend, when Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal won the Italian Open, which was completely unsurprising except perhaps for how easily Nadal dispatched the formerly formidable Roger Federer.
But Stephanie Dolgoff, the author of a new book, "My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches From Just the Other Side of Young" (Ballantine Books), is undaunted.
They were part of a group of 300 white-collar employees, all formerly parked behind desks, who were dispatched to a packaging and warehousing company affiliated with NEC.
Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the commander of the joint task force at Guantánamo, was dispatched to the Iraqi prison — formerly Saddam Hussein's favorite torture chamber — to make it a more effective laboratory for producing intelligence that might help defeat the insurgency.
The town's history and features were dispatched in two swift sentences: "Fort William... formerly the key of the highlands and now a convenient tourist-centre.
Now William Rose, formerly McDonald's station chief of a region between India and China, has been dispatched to become the new chief executive for Donatos.
And meanwhile the Taliban's appeal is spreading deeper into Pakistan.Losing to Mullah RadioIn the tourism area of Swat, formerly famous for honeymooners and the site of Pakistan's only ski-lift, 2,500 troops were dispatched last month to sort out an irksome local mullah, Fazalullah.
About 300 members of Azov, formerly a volunteer battalion with many far-right members and now part of the official National Guard, were dispatched to Odessa.
France dispatched 260 gendarmes.
Rangers have been dispatched.
I dispatched environmental testers.
