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...ruling upholding California's "three strikes" law, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor noted that sentences such as 25 years without parole for stealing three golf clubs don't necessarily violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment - and that if Californians think the law is too harsh, they should talk to their legislators...
...Corporation member and Harvard Treasurer D. Ronald Daniel and former Senior Fellow and current Harvard Management Company Director Robert G. Stone Jr. ’45 to issue letters reaffirming their commitment to diversity. The demand comes in light of their membership in the Augusta National Golf Club, which came under criticism this fall for its policy excluding women from membership, and coincides with several national groups’ calls for Augusta members to withdraw from the club...
While Augusta National’s regulations are perfectly legal, the club’s exclusion of women preserves the tradition of limiting golf clubs—and the related schmoozing at places like Augusta—exclusively to men. At Augusta, if women are present, they are only there as guests. This undermines efforts to diversify the corporate elite: even if women and men work together in the board room, the deals made on Augusta’s golf course and in its back rooms are largely made between men. Essentially, the personal relationships forged between members...
...entire campaign to force Augusta National Golf Club into admitting female members is absurd. Augusta is a private club, and is thus free to craft whatever membership policies it chooses. The Staff’s shrill complaints are misguided and irritating: people should be free to associate with whomever they choose without obnoxious criticism from newspaper editors...
...helping relieve the effects of the Flood of 1937 with a fund-raising show, and the Pope for “mentioning the Colonels to the Heavenly Father.” The colonels’ website, www.kycolonels.org, is also a one-stop shop for colonel merchandise, from official golf towels and “Taste of Kentucky” food baskets in the shape of Kentucky, to the autobiography of Maker’s Mark, “the world’s premier bourbon,” and all manner of “sipping tools...