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RETIRED. JERRY WEST, 62, revered L.A. Lakers icon who netted seven NBA titles during his 40-year career as player and executive; in Los Angeles. Silhouetted in the NBA logo, the 14-time All-Star guard was nicknamed "Mr. Clutch" for his last-second heroics...
...stunningly complicated process) and I have no idea how to stop them from taking the money, it looks like I've got myself a portfolio of sorts. And that means that ever since New Year's I've had to purchase several new bottles of antacid, which I clutch faithfully every morning as the market opens. It all looked so rosy back in '98, and now it's like a terrible and extremely expensive roller coaster...
...much happening, so little to say. Scores of American reporters, as well as a clutch of foreign ones, have decamped to this rural hamlet an hour and a half north of Washington in the Catoctin Mountains to scrape for crumbs of news in the face of a conspiracy of silence among American, Israeli and Palestinian officials. Except for a carefully orchestrated - and tightly controlled - photo op on Day 1, all the reporters have been kept off the secluded grounds of Camp David. Most are eight miles away at the Thurmont Elementary School, where White House spokesman Joe Lockhart takes...
...morning on the crowded houseboat that is home to himself, five assistants and three dogs, he ventures out among the sloughs and sandbars to battle a rising tide of trash and fill the small flotilla of rusting barges that he pushes upstream with the help of passing tugboats, a clutch of corporate sponsors and sheer willpower...
Unlike many big hitters, Tiger has a delicate touch for the short shots around the green. He is an excellent clutch putter. He has practiced diligently since he was a child. But what I've found most impressive about Tiger is his mental game. He has studied the swings of other great players, how they think about golf. He can remember the exact yardage he faced on each approach shot days after a round. He is driven to be the best golfer who ever played, and if he has a worry, it's that if he marries and has children...