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Suburbs, in their endless drive for autonomy (read "privilege"), especially over the consumption of public goods, have wanted, and gotten, it all. Good schools, good roads, good police, good parks, good hospitals, good golf courses. No one could stop them. No one was in a position to say, "No." Every city, every suburb, every village is independent, and unaccountable to the whole...
Designed by artist Mark Heckman, who has put up other activist posters, the tollway sign touting the mythical club was intended as a sardonic comment on the exclusion of blacks from many of the nation's golf courses...
...Alan Caruba, king of the anti-boredom campaign. I like being bored and I'm not the slightest bit embarrassed by it. There's nothing I can think of that's more fun than waking up late on a Sunday, reading the paper, taking a long nap, watching a golf tournament on TV and calling it an early night...
...more than women seem to draw on anger as a tool, but it is decidedly double-edged. In a sport like golf, which depends on fine motor control, rage can spell disaster. In football, anger may help power up a blitzing lineman, but it can impair a quarterback's judgment...
When the electronics firm Omron told plant manager Junichi Yoshikawa, 43, that he had to take a three-month sabbatical, he set up a vacation schedule with the same thoroughness that he shows at the office. He decided to travel overseas (to San Francisco and Los Angeles), practice golf and start his own consulting and sales firm in Japan -- and tackled each task with determination. "After two months off, I felt different," Yoshikawa recalls. "I felt that I could be more creative and break away from reality...