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Tiger Woods should thank his lucky stars that things have played out the way they have for him [SPORTS, Aug. 14]. He should stay silent about having to confront any real-world challenges like living from paycheck to paycheck. His brilliant smile and golf game are magic, though. Life is easier and more fun because he's around. THOMAS JIRGENSOHN Albuquerque...
...after their pow-wow at the airport, and a 12-hour flight back, Clinton returned to the White House at about 2 p.m. Tuesday - just in time to get in a quick round of golf under a late-summer drizzle. Then it was back to Andrews Air Force base at 7 a.m. Wednesday for a day trip to Cartagena, Colombia (nine hours in the air, nine hours on the ground). The grueling schedule left some of the aides who took both trips, like National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and chief of staff John Podesta, noticeably dragging as they traipsed along...
...past performance is no guarantee of future results, now that workaday Americans buy stocks and CNBC plays in hair salons. In the go-go '80s, he had friends on the Street who once flew him on a leased jet to Pebble Beach in California because they felt like playing golf. "[They] had more in their pockets than I made in a year," he says. But what stuck with him was the drama in their work. "It was the power and the game. They weren't just interested in closing a deal. They wanted to crush the other...
...more important stuff. I'm sure that everyone in your entourage (not to mention the hordes of media hacks now hot on your trail) is telling you you're the best thing that's ever happened to golf. And that may well be true. But to be perfectly honest, Tiger, you need to keep all this praise in perspective. Because let's face it, being the best thing that ever happened to golf is well and good, but it doesn't mean you can just sit back on your cleated laurels and count your greenbacks...
...Call every Representative on the fence; hint at a private pork roast B. Call a bipartisan commission to study the issues further C. Play golf; try to look good; lash out at do-nothing Congress...