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And with a mangled racket and plenty of kicking and screaming  including a couple of arguments with the chair umpire  then a postmatch parting shot at a line judge Safin called "a little bit too blind."
 Safin used to rant about disliking tennis on grass  and he once complained about the high price and low quality of food at the players' restaurant at the All England Club. Well  he doesn't have to worry about any of that again after bowing out in his final Wimbledon with a 6-2  3-6  7-6 (4)  6-4 loss to Levine.
 After confirming this would be his last appearance at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament -- Safin has vowed to retire at season's end -- he was asked how he feels about being done with Wimbledon.
 He's a former No. 1 player who won the 2000 U.S. Open and 2005 Australian Open  but a series of injuries slowed him recently. Still  Safin came to Wimbledon ranked 24th and seeded 14th  and had to be considered quite a favorite against Levine  who never had defeated anyone ranked better than 67th.
Safin has vowed to retire at season's end -- he was asked how he feels about being done with Wimbledon.
 He's a former No. 1 player who won the 2000 U.S. Open and 2005 Australian Open  but a series of injuries slowed him recently. Still  Safin came to Wimbledon ranked 24th and seeded 14th  and had to be considered quite a favorite against Levine  who never had defeated anyone ranked better than 67th.
 "He's an amazing player  and I'm still kind of feeling weird right now that I just beat Safin  because I've always watched him play on TV " said Levine  who turned pro in 2007. "I just kind of went out there with nothing to lose and played some good tennis."
 Levine was a teen when Safin burst onto the scene as a brash  big-hitting 20-year-old who knocked off Sampras to win the U.S. Open.
 "I really had to ... focus on playing against the ball and not worrying about  'Oh  wow  I'm playing against Marat Safin on the other side of the court '" Levine said. "Because then things could have gotten a lot more interesting."
 As is his wont  Safin made things interesting enough. In the early going  he broke his racket by spiking it on the court.
 Leading 4-3 in the third-set tiebreaker  Safin hit a shot near a line that was ruled out. Afterward  Safin said: "Thanks for the guy who made the call. I want to say hello to him. Too bad that he was a little bit too blind."
 In the fourth set  Safin told the chair umpire he could check for chalk on the ball to confirm a call. Rebuffed  Safin added: "So all players are stupid?"
 Safin reached at least the semifinals at all four majors  including at Wimbledon last year  but he has been criticized for not living up to the potential stored in his 6-foot-4 (1.93-meter) frame -- about 7 inches (18 centimeters) taller than Levine.
 "In the history of tennis  everybody's an underachiever " Safin said. "Agassi should have been winning  I don't know  15 Grand Slams. Sampras should have been winning 20 Grand Slams. Federer should be winning -- already should have 25."
 "I should probably have (won) a couple of more " he said  "but I'm pretty satisfied with what I did."
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Marat Safin


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David Allen  owner of A&M Auctioneers and Appraisers   never quite knows what’s going to turn up from the old homes and shops of the Eastern Shore.
Once   he  said   he  came across a box of wooden and metal washboards from an old general store  100 years old and looking new.
 Allen  said this was the first time  he  had come across a KKK robe as part of an estate.
 Allen  told  her  the auction house was contractually bound to sell all the items from the estate — including the robe. But together with the seller   he  arranged to donate proceeds from its sale toward college costs for one of  his  employees  whom  he  described as an immigrant from Nigeria studying in the United States.
“We didn’t really want it publicized ”  Allen  said. But the solution was “something that we feel was fair ”  he  said  given the item’s legacy.
 Allen  said that under the terms of the auction house’s contract   he  couldn’t reveal the buyer or the seller. But  he  said the robe  which sold Feb. 7 during the online auction  went for about $1 300.
“Take it or leave it  it’s a piece of history ”  Allen  said.
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David Allen


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Conservative Christians in America love Texas Sen. Ted Cruz . 
While other Republican presidential candidates , namely Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee , are also extremely popular with many Christians , particularly evangelicals , Cruz continues to pull in more and more of the conservative Christian vote . 
For the third year in the row , Cruz won the Values Voter Summit Presidential Straw Poll , "the largest gathering of evangelical voters from across the country ." 
So why do Christians gravitate toward Cruz ? 
Cruz is a Passionate Defender of Religious Liberty . 
No political leader is a stronger defender of religious liberty than Cruz , who has pushed back strongly against the erosion of Constitutional rights , battling "liberal fascists" during a time when religious freedom has been tested in this country to a degree it has not seen in recent history . 
"We were founded by men and women fleeing religious persecution ," Cruz said at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition summit this year . 
Cruz Is Unafraid to Take On the ` Anti-Christian ' Left . 
Cruz is a fighter , repeatedly proving that he 's not only willing to go to bat for Christians , he will call out those whom he perceives to be "anti-Christian" -- particularly those on the radical left . 
"Today 's Democratic Party has decided there is no room for Christians in today 's Democratic Party ," Cruz said in April . 
In an interview on Sean Hannity 's show in October , Cruz responded to the president 's claim in the New York Review of Books that "it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously sometimes are also those who are suspicious of those not like them ." 
Cruz told Hannity that Obama 's comment was indicative of the "strong anti-American streak" and "antipathy for Christians" among those , like Obama , on the "far left ." 
Cruz went on to praise America -- which is still a majority Christian country -- as "an incredible force of good in this world" which has "spilled more blood" for freedom than any other country . 
"And yet , the far-left , out of which Barack Obama arose , despises American leadership in the world ," said Cruz . 
Cruz Appears to be a Genuine Believer . 
By all accounts , Cruz is not just "politicking" about his Christian principles . 
One moment captured on a cell phone after a campaign event in October revealed just one example of many in which Cruz demonstrated his genuine belief in the power of prayer and his pastoral inclinations -LRB- still shot from Facebook post below -RRB- : . 
Cruz Is Unapologetically Pro-Life . 
Cruz is a passionate and vocal pro-life advocate , having "played a leading role in several important cases , including defense of the partial-birth abortion ban , parental consent laws , and prohibiting state funds from going to abortion ." 
When the shocking videos showing high-level Planned Parenthood officials discussing the company 's fetal body part trade were first released , Cruz rallied evangelicals in an effort to defund the group . 
When the Republican House leadership caved to pressure and failed to eliminate public funding to the nation 's leading provider of abortion , Cruz blasted those who "failed to lift a finger to protect life ." 
Senator Ted Cruz . 
Cruz Is Strongly Pro-Israel . 
Cruz has consistently come to the defense of Israel , which is an important issue for most American Christians -- particularly evangelicals -- and has been undermined repeatedly by Obama since early in his presidency . 
Cruz has frequently praised Israel as America 's most important ally in the Middle East and a beacon of freedom and tolerance in a troubled region . 
Perhaps no Republican candidate has been more vocal than Cruz condemning the Iran nuclear deal , which was staunchly opposed by Israel and which conservative Christians rejected overwhelmingly .
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Ted Cruz