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Playing conditions are poor on this cold and windy Sunday, but spirits remain high. Chivalry is alive and well in this crowd. The gentlemen set up the course while the ladies wait huddled under the protection of an umbrella. Though the men are usually expected to wear sports coats, slacks, button-down shirts and ties, the day’s weather calls for an exception. “In case of poor weather,” explains Black, “overcoats and sweaters can be worn. The sweaters can be draped or worn, though draped is preferred...
...they chose one that took no athletic ability at all: walking onto a baseball field at the beginning of a game. When Cal Ripken of the Baltimore Orioles did that on September 6, 1995, he broke Lou Gehrig's iron-man record of 2,130 consecutive games. Ladies and gentlemen, your all-time Most Memorable Baseball Moment...
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. The Harvard Automotive Society and Racing Team is now officially recognized as a club sport...
...Today, Namsan's 1,000-odd steps are as frequented by Spandex-clad runners as by lapdog-toting ajumas, older Korean women, and retired gentlemen with their newspapers. From the summit of Namsan the megalopolis of Seoul sprawls before you. The historic part of town, with its complex of royal palaces, lies at the mountain's base just to the north, while to the south the Han River glitters on its way to the port of Incheon and the Yellow Sea. And just below, nestled in a sea of greenery, is a reminder of South Korea's unenviable honor...
...forfeiting half a dozen opportunities offered to him in 1990 to extricate himself with advantage from Kuwait. In the annals of tyranny and on the scale of capricious savagery, he ranks somewhere between Caligula and Mao. There's not much percentage in counting on the rationality of such gentlemen...