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...recent statement by Sanford I. Weill, the chairman of Citigroup, that he supports the acceptance of women for membership in the elite Augusta National Golf Club marks a small victory for women’s lobbying groups who have been attempting, unsuccessfully, to end gender discrimination at the club. Augusta National is the site of golf’s annual Masters Invitational tournament, and Weill is the first member to speak out against the club’s policy. Weill’s courage should serve as an example to other members of the club and to the wider golf...
...Irish Travelers of North Augusta, S.C., stopped their pickups in the middle of the road last week to commiserate over the "outing" of Madelyne Gorman Toogood. The woman caught thrashing her 4-year-old on a surveillance video in Indiana is also, as it turns out, an Irish Traveler. And though they don't know her, they know what her arrest means: 15 minutes of grueling fame for a community that thrives on secrecy...
...Traveler settlement near Fort Worth, Texas, where Toogood has lived, local non-Travelers say prepubescent boys carry wads of cash and drive their parents' flashy new cars. Some Travelers are indeed yonks, the cant term for thieves. Six North Augusta Travelers pleaded guilty last year to using fraudulent documents to buy cars. Toogood's husband John is facing trial in Montana for allegedly duping elderly residents with faulty home-repair work...
Then again, North Augusta police chief Lee Wetherington has hired Travelers to pave his driveway and paint his house. "They did an outstanding job," he says. Locals call them Gypsies and whisper about their dirty deals. But, says Penn, "we don't put our old folks in rest homes. We don't have as many divorces. And when a woman gets raped or a bank gets robbed, law enforcement doesn't come to Murphy Village." Says Joe Livingston, a senior agent with the South Carolina state police who has tracked the Travelers for two decades: "It's really a paradox...
...fairly moderate, reasonable person, I was not at first insulted by the Augusta National Golf Club's decision not to admit women members. However, after reading "Getting Teed Off" [Business, Sept. 16], I changed my mind. The position of the club that gender diversity doesn't carry the same imperative as ethnic or racial diversity is despicable. How nice for the club to be the one to categorize which types of discrimination are acceptable and which are not. Its members display the ignorant beliefs of the white male establishment. They have never been on the other side of such demeaning...