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When I was young, my family would spend the summer in Long Beach Island (LBI), a half-mile-wide tourist haven in Ocean County, New Jersey. My memories of LBI are of miniature golf, of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream cones, and of long walks along the sand with my parents. Consider this along with—though my Irish name does its best to obfuscate it—my Sicilian heritage, and I’m perhaps as entitled as anyone to be offended by MTV’s “Jersey Shore...
...Americans paying for college," Obama was forced to go off script. "I thought I'd get some applause on that one," he said, looking over to the Republicans, who were sitting on their hands. There was some giggling, and some of them relented, offering the congressional version of a golf clap...
...were John Edwards, I'd try to concentrate all the bad news at once," says Tim Calkins, a marketing professor at Kellogg School of Management. "Get it out of the way. And then focus on replacing it with good news." When Tiger Woods starts to play good golf, his transgressions will fade from memory. Unlike Woods, however, Edwards doesn't have any public venues he can easily hop back into...
...lingering signs of holiday relaxation were absent on Tuesday when Barack Obama emerged from the subterranean Situation Room and a high-pressured meeting with his top national and homeland security staff. The same President who played golf along Oahu beaches the day after a Christmas bombing attempt on a Detroit-bound airliner now appeared stone-faced and grim. In a brief statement to the nation, he used the word "failure" six times to characterize his government's performance...
Since he arrived on Christmas Eve, President Obama has kept a low profile. He played golf on a military course, and watched the waves at a popular bodysurfing beach called Pyramid Rock. The President's children were treated to shave-ice treats on Saturday at Island Snow - the same store the President visited with his daughters last Christmas. (See the Obamas' 2008 Hawaii vacation...