This has been a notably upset-free tournament.
Early on, she made headlines with some of her bold calls, notably upsetting Wall Street executive Sanford I. Weill when she criticized the acquisition of Salomon by his firm the Travelers Group.
Berdych won their first professional match, notably upsetting then world No. 1 Federer at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
They are also helping to reconfigure America's somewhat moribund human-rights movement (though evangelicals are notably less upset about Guantánamo Bay than Amnesty International is).There are undoubtedly dangers in marrying aid with faith.
But she is determined to win, although there are several others who would like to cause an upset –notably Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia, the double Olympic gold medallist enjoying a renaissance at the age of 37, Salina Kosgei of Kenya who won this year's Boston Marathon and Japan's Yuri Kano, aiming to be the first Japanese competitor to win this event, having finished third last year.
Washington was well aware that its Gulf allies, notably Saudi Arabia, were upset at being kept out of the loop on the discussions held with Iran in Oman before the nuclear deal was reached but, the officials said, the only way for those talks to succeed was to keep them a secret.
But France, the only former colonial power to have maintained strong ties to its ex-possessions, worried that the end of personalized power under long-ruling dictators would open the region up to influence from others, notably the United States, and upset its interests in everything from oil fields to military bases.
Games against school rivals or prominent football programs seemed to lead to a steep rise in reported rapes, as did upset victories (notably, schools did not experience a significant rise in reported rapes when the opponent won in an upset).
Take seeding, or a team's rank, into account, but don't be a slave to it; there are often upsets, most notably in the number five to number 12 match-ups in the first round.
