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Korean golfer Si Re Pak begins play at the Du Maurier Open in Windsor, Ontario. The lady has been outperforming even Tiger this year, shooting the lowest round in LPGA history, and this weekend she could become only the fourth woman to win three major tournaments in one year...
...Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier...
Corporate diversity programs have nothing on the U.S. national soccer team that takes the field this week in the World Cup finals, La Coupe du Monde, being held in France. There are blacks, whites and Hispanics. One striker is South African, and the sweeper is from Germany. Better to talk to the left fullback in French; one midfielder is Dutch-born, another is from Uruguay and yet another from Yugoslavia. Throw in some California dudes, a couple of kids from Jersey, a farm-boy goaltender from Washington State and, bless us, a few sons of suburban soccer moms...
...good strong-arm tactic to use with the bosses, but it ain't exactly going to win any sympathy contests. With thousands of soccer fans -- not to mention Eritreans attempting to flee the growing conflict with Ethiopia -- stranded, the pilots' popularity is plummeting. A poll in Le Journal du Dimanche showed that just 38 percent of the union-friendly French public support their strike. Compare that to 79 percent for the truckers last fall, and you have the picket-line equivalent of an own goal...
KATE MOSS The pixie, stick-shaped model was so vocally exuberant in her late-night partying during the Cannes Film Festival that she was banned for life from the usually sympathetic Hotel du Cap. Her manager insists that she was leaving anyway...