Baddeley Upbeat As Open Looms

AARON Baddeley is upbeat, as he has always been, even before he won the 1999 Australian Open at Royal Sydney as an 18-year-old amateur. If mental scars remain from the events of the US Open, and that final round of 80 at Oakmont last month, they neither show in his actions nor in his words.

Silver Still Shines For Sapphires

SHE is a basketball world championships silver medallist and has the scars to prove it.

Bombs, Scars And Compassion

Radiance By Shaena Lambert Virago, 326pp, $29.95

Cold-blooded Killer Took More Than Lives

HE IS only eight years old but will carry the scars of what cold-blooded killer James Barton did to him and his family for the rest of his life.