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Fair enough. But if you're going to be comprehensive, you can't ignore or just give short shrift to the scandal. Especially during the first few tournaments of 2010, and during whatever event in which Woods will make his return. You may not hear about Woods' transgressions from the organizations that bring you golf on Sunday afternoons. But the TV suits will be sweating, and the entire situation will be uncomfortable, on every hole along...
...former economic adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was recently invited to the White House for a jobs summit, is more aghast at the vagueness of the speech. "He did not give one dollar figure," says Holtz-Eakin. "He did not explain how anything is being paid...
Whatever her financial motivations may be, some observers attribute a motive more primal than economic to Tita's legal wranglings. "This is all about Borja trying to seek independence from his mother, and Tita not wanting to give it," says David Litchfield, British author of The Thyssen Art Macabre. "He was always her little prince, but ever since he married Blanca, Tita has been fighting to keep him at her side...
...Controversy and intrafamily feuds are part of the Thyssen dynasty fabric. The Baroness had Borja out of wedlock with a previous paramour but convinced her rich husband, who was 22 years her senior, to adopt Borja and to give him the Thyssen surname. She and Thyssen also adopted two girls. In March 2002, Thyssen, who died later that year, settled an expensive lawsuit with his eldest son over the disposition of the family's $2 billion trust...
...dean of law: "Today it is homosexuals under attack. Tomorrow it will be another minority." In the meantime, the country's gay community cowers. "In Uganda people take us to be sinners," says Grace, the leader of a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender youth group, who preferred not to give her surname. "They consider us as a destroyed person. Most of [our members] say, 'I don't know what I am doing in this world. Everybody hates me.' We have to keep on consoling them...