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Swiss Missed

By Lindsay Berra

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

If geography is destiny, then Roger Federer was fated to be what he is-multilingual, laid-back, impossibly polite. He is, in short, Swiss. But there is nothing of the quirkiness of the cuckoo clock in Federer, no thrill like the first sight of the Alps. Except in his tennis. The reigning Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion is from Basel, an industrial city of 450,000 split in two by the slate-gray waters of the Rhine. In the country's second-largest city, bikes are left unlocked on the streets, the ...

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