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Shirtless beachgoers carrying buckets and pails and snorkeling gear walked past the woman behind the Serengeti dark glasses without noticing (although the unsmiling muscle-bound guys lurking nearby, with wires in their ears and hiding automatics in their knockoff Jams, should have aroused some suspicions). While her husband golfed to his heart's content (36 holes on one day) and her daughter frolicked with two friends in the Pacific surf, Mrs. Clinton -- who does not golf, who does not do handstands in waist-high water -- remained aloof from island fun. Aides had billeted at the hotel half a dozen...
...land. Mountains of strip-mined coal that usually glisten in the sun south of St. Louis poked only their very tips above the water. At the Kirkwood Athletic Association complex in Kirkwood, Missouri, only the dugout roofs could be seen above the water covering baseball diamonds, and a nearby golf course looked like a series of small green islands lost in a sea. At the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rivers in St. Charles County, a statue of the Virgin Mary appeared to be dancing on the waves...
...savings and loan crisis. The B.C.C.I. caper. Insider trading. Think of all the notorious business scandals that briefly enriched white-collar crooks during the greedy '80s. All those financial fiascoes might have been prevented with a simple lie-detector test: golf...
...proof, consider Golf and the Business Executive, an "attitudinal study" (translation: poll) by Hyatt Hotels & Resorts. In the survey, nearly half of 401 executives agreed that "the way a person plays golf is very similar to how he or she conducts business affairs." At least some were speaking from self-knowledge: 55% admitted cheating at golf at least once. The offenses included moving the ball to get a better lie (41% of the executives), not counting a missed tap-in (19%), taking an extra tee shot (13%), intentionally miscounting strokes (8%) and secretly producing a fresh ball while pretending...
...auction conducted in Dallas by the RTC, the federal agency selling off assets of failed S&Ls, six golf resorts in three states, with a total of 315 holes, were sold for $395.4 million, well above what they were expected to bring...