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...thing the LPGA wants is to end up like the short-lived Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA), a female alternative to the popular men’s Major League Soccer. Despite attracting the brightest talents in the sport, from Brandi Chastain to Mia Hamm, WUSA suspended action after only three seasons due to lack of funds. The LPGA is far from that danger, but a gender disparity certainly applies in golf as well. The top women’s player in 2007 earned $2,381,048; the top male player earned...
...English-only rule has had an unintended consequence. Though it was designed to raise money for the sport, media backlash has actually ended up alienating sponsors. This, combined with threatened legal action, was enough to pressure Bivens into rescinding the rule last week. She was quoted as saying that, “after hearing the concerns, we believe there are other ways to achieve our shared objective of supporting and enhancing the business opportunities for every tour player...
...break in the action comes at a moment when the nation seems anything but peaceful and its politics far from unified. In the past several days, the presidential campaign has taken on a desperate - and at times downright pathetic - turn...
...Bailey to a state trooper, intimates that Palin was otherwise happy with Monegan except on the Wooten issue: "I'm telling you honestly, you know, she really likes Walt a lot, but on this issue, she feels like it's - she doesn't know why there is absolutely no action for a year on this issue. It's very, very troubling to her and the family. I could definitely relay that," Bailey said...
...dinner at the 2005 Tory party conference, horrified hard-line colleagues who suspected his brand of Conservatism concealed a dangerously liberal core. What he meant, says Cameron, is that "politicians have to understand what has come before." That includes recognizing strengths - and weaknesses. Cameron voted, with reluctance, for military action in Iraq and later sent constituents copies of a speech Blair made in support of the invasion. "The problem with Blair is that he was a liberal interventionist without a hand brake," says Cameron now. "There was no limit to his ambition." That led, in Cameron's view...