Word: companion
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Tiger is building a new home in Isleworth, Fla., and has found a steady companion in Joanna Jagoda, 22, a law student at Pepperdine University. They met on a blind date. "She's a good girl," Woods says. Jagoda has adjusted to the cameras and scrutiny. "It takes time to understand--you've got to experience it," Tiger says. "It's not an easy life, but we've gone through it pretty good." But he professes to have no "timeline" for marriage or kids: "When the time is right, you'll know...
...immigrants have been killed and seven others have been wounded in showdowns on the U.S. side of the border. Violence has come as the days get warmer. On May 14, Mexican Eusebio de Haro, 22, was shot in the groin and left bleeding to death after he and a companion approached a rancher near Bracketville, Texas, pleading for a drink of water. Near the Arizona border town of Sasabe, Miguel Angel Palafox, 20, had eluded the border patrol on May 21 and was heading north through hills covered with saguaro cactus--his dream was to reach Phoenix--when...
...often get caught in a web of drugs and sex. Burkhart was 11, Whitsett 16. When Burkhart finished high school, they moved in together. The relationship troubled Burkhart's mother Susan; Whitsett had been kicked out of the Navy for sexual misconduct. Her son seemed obsessed by his companion. Says Susan Burkhart: "It wasn't a friendship between equals...
...with every rise in high-profile, senselessly brutal crimes. Several have made headlines in the country's larger cities recently. The granddaughter of the Los Angeles police chief was killed outside a Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits, apparently caught in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong companion. In a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pa., five people died after an immigration lawyer went on a 20-mile shooting rampage. And in New York City, seven people were bound, gagged and shot during a robbery at a Wendy's restaurant, prompting Republican Senate candidate Rick Lazio to call...
...Antonio, Texas, has had half as many murders during the first quarter of this year as the same period last year. Yet there is bad news. Aggravated assault is up almost 51%, and experts consider that crime a companion indicator for homicide, because it stops just short of death...