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...better cuts of meat, says the butcher, but driving an extra 100 miles to get a better car deal; saving money on toilet paper at Wal-Mart--"I never did that in the '80s," says a local businessman--so they have extra to spend on a better breed of golf club. The deli owner was confident enough to start her own business, but is worried enough that she doesn't yet dare raise the price of a liverwurst above $3.50. The local bankers see people with as much as $70,000 in charge-card debt, which could be a measure...
...team. An even-tempered, down-to-earth Chicago native, he is known for his street savvy, lawyerly acumen and good judgment. After suffering a heart attack in the early 1990s, he has slimmed down and forsaken the cheap cigars whose stench once pervaded the office. He is passionate about golf (but has little time to play), and his Elvis impersonations for the public-integrity support staff at Christmas are legendary...
Zoeller soon paid a price for saying openly what many others were thinking secretly. K Mart, the discount chain with a big African-American clientele, unceremoniously dumped him as the sponsor of a line of golf clothing and equipment, and he abjectly withdrew from the Greater Greensboro Open tournament. "People who know me know I'm a jokester. I just didn't deliver the line well," Zoeller tearfully explained. But his real crime was not, as he and his defenders seem to think, merely a distasteful breach of racial etiquette or an inept attempt at humor. The real crime...
...setting triumph at the Masters as a symbol of racial progress but see him as a traitor. To them Woods appeared to be running away from being an African American--a condition, they were quick to point out, that he himself had emphasized when he paid tribute to black golf pioneers Teddy Rhoades, Charlie Sifford and Lee Elder in his graceful victory speech. In a mirror image of Zoeller's constricted views, some blacks saw Woods' assertion of a multiracial identity as a sellout that could touch off an epidemic of "passing." Arthur Fletcher, a black member...
...trial in 1994, Brown offered 17 varsity sports to women and 16 to men; women constituted 51% of the student body and 38% of the varsity athletes. At the same time that Brown tried to eliminate women's volleyball and gymnastics, it had also cut loose men's golf and water polo. But as Labinger has pointed out, the total funding for the two men's teams was $16,000, while the women's teams represented an expenditure of $62,000. Brown, which was supported by briefs from more than 60 other institutions, has since spent an estimated $1 million...