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While his U.S. and European counterparts honed their games at colleges and country clubs, Singh, a Fiji native of Indian descent, barnstormed the world, playing in Nigeria and Morocco, even working as a bouncer in Scotland to make ends meet. "Playing in different countries, with pretty much no money in your pocket, you kind of get a different attitude about life," he says. "You're a harder player." So while Mickelson is flying Cessnas and Woods is fishing, Singh is hitting golf balls as though his next meal depends on shooting under...
...Soviet Union began to crumble in the early 1990s, Maskhadov, an artillery colonel, returned to Chechnya to mastermind the military strategy for its 1994-96 revolt against Russia. Elected Chechen President by a landslide in 1997, he quickly lost support for failing to stop the republic's descent into anarchy. After late 1999, when Russian forces reinvaded Chechnya and overthrew his secessionist government, Maskhadov became a fugitive, constantly on the move and relying largely on couriers for his communications. Three or four bodyguards usually accompanied him, while mobile security teams - most recently, about 15 men posing as pro-Russian strongman...
...people aren't really seeing all of you." As Evans' fictional twins grow up, their struggle to assert themselves becomes starkly apparent. Bessi finds work in the music industry, while Georgia retreats into depression and her history studies, increasingly unable to handle daily life. Evans graphically charts Georgia's descent into an emotional paralysis that makes simply buying a carton of milk an immense effort. "If she did brave [a trip to the store] ... she found more problems. The mini-mart was out of semi-skimmed. The milk aisle was crawling with human beings." Ultimately, not even her special bond...
Even though I have been involved in activism on Sudan, the sense of disconnect did not strike me until I spoke at a rally at the State House on Thursday. Before the rally, a woman came up to me and asked, politely, if I was of Sudanese descent. What that question revealed to me, is that if I was in Sudan, living amongst the black Africans in Darfur, I would be just as much of a target as the next person. For no reason, other than by virtue of being born in America, am I granted a different level...
...resignation came a week before HP was due to report earnings--a report that the company acknowledges will meet Wall Street's estimates. But the guillotine blade began its descent in December, when IBM decided to sell its money-losing personal-computer business to Lenovo, a Chinese company. IBM had concluded that a PC was a commodity, little more than a toaster that also does long division, and its decision to get out of the business spotlighted Fiorina's opposite bet. Under her command, HP in 2002 spent $19 billion buying Compaq, largely to expand its position...