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...Bosnia. Moreover, several of her advisers complain that she has been late to embrace big foreign policy ideas. When I asked if Clinton had tackled the question of foreign assistance as a tool of counterterrorism, for example, an adviser said some aides keep trying to "push that dung ball up the hill, but nobody's really focusing on that right...
What are the tricks the candidates use to exert control? These candidates know their way around a debate. Everybody walks in the room with a flash of humor to use if needed, a long ball to use if needed, an attack line to use if needed. I think we have to remember that our job is to try to break up the kind of frozen ice of canned responses...
...shot 40 years ago were lengthened so as to demand the same club for the approach today. Butch Harmon, Woods' former swing coach, says this fixation on "shot value" robbed the tee shots on several holes of their nuance, since golfers do not need to draw or fade the ball with their drivers when they are simply trying to hit it as far as possible down long, straight landing strips. "The days of hitting big, sweeping hooks off the tees are gone," he says. "I like the changes though, because it keeps the emphasis on the approach shot...
Most past Masters champions agree that Augusta provides almost the identical test of golfing skill that it did a generation ago. But the fact that it has gone to such lengths to ensure this consistency touches on a debate in the sport about whether professionals are now hitting the ball too far, and whether the game's governing bodies should place tighter restrictions on their equipment. Many other championship venues have undertaken expansions, and new courses with aspirations of hosting professional events are now built with much higher yardage totals. Longer golf courses require more resources for building and maintenance...
...Harvard women’s lacrosse team (7-3) suffered a crushing 18-6 loss to No. 11 Boston University (9-2) at Harvard Stadium yesterday evening. “[The Terriers] were just extremely aggressive and played the ball,” senior Tara Schoen said. “We had unforced turnovers and our shots were not falling.” It was anybody’s game in the beginning of the first half. Neither team scored for the first seven minutes of play. But in the eighth minute BU junior Sarah Dalton quick-sticked a ball...