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...this case, Tiger certainly chose the safe shot. First off, the Masters is notoriously stingy when it comes to handing out media credentials, so he won't be confronted by TMZ after finishing his practice round. "They're going to have a much harder time getting in," says Dan Jenkins, a legendary golf writer who will be covering his 60th - that's not a misprint - Masters in April, regarding the access Augusta grants to media outlets that don't cover golf regularly. "You've got to start going there awhile before you get taken into the club." Masters organizers...
...after a few weeks of rehabilitation for his reported sex addiction, followed by an awkward public press conference, Tiger appears to at least be working toward some sort of reconciliation with his wife - this week, the couple was photographed together for the first time since the scandal broke. So after spending a couple of weeks tuning up his game, Woods will return to the course at the event that, more than any other tournament on the pro tour, has cemented his status as a golf legend: the Masters, which tees off April 8 at the Augusta National Golf Club...
...didn't look that way in the beginning. There was hope in the first few months of Obama's presidency that the bad blood from the Cold War and the George W. Bush years could be washed away with little more than a push of a button. For example, on Obama's first visit to Moscow, last July, President Dmitri Medvedev agreed to allow U.S. weapons and personnel to pass through Russian airspace en route to Afghanistan. It was a huge relief to American troops, who had been trucking most of their supplies through the death trap of Pakistan...
...spring in the Persian world. The popular holiday, celebrated with bonfires and, more recently, illegal fireworks, is so hoary it predates the three Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - a fact that the mullahs who rule Iran are quite sensitive about. One ayatullah, Nasser Makarem Shirazi, called the first day of Nowrooz a "superstitious act and baseless. Pious and sensible Muslims will stay away from...
...Pope suffers in silence, Catholics in his native Germany are growing increasingly angry as revelations pile up. They were first set off by accusations from former students at a prestigious Jesuit high school in Berlin. But much of the attention has now shifted to the case of Father H, the name the German media is using for the priest who sexually abused minors in the late 1970s and was transferred to Munich in 1980, initially for treatment, but later allowed to return to full pastoral duties. The man at the helm of the Munich Archdiocese at the time of Father...