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...bran--one that left everyone but her and Chelsea hungry. Hugh was known to steal off to McDonald's or organize family outings from Camp David to the Cozy Restaurant in nearby Thurmont, Md., for a fix of fries. As time went on, in ever larger sweat clothes and golf sweaters bearing the White House seal, the more he wanted Hillary's approval, the less likely...
Mori's most damaging bungle occurred Feb. 10 when he blithely continued his Saturday round of golf after being informed that nine people, including four teenage students, had been lost when an American submarine collided with a Japanese fishing boat off the coast of Hawaii. He still isn't repentant. "How can you consider it a situation requiring crisis management?" he says. "It was an accident. I feel I properly demonstrated the required leadership...
Calm down, I reply. It's just a silly sports column. Yes, baseball hasn't begun yet. Yes, we can find Brett Favre and Jerry Rice on the golf course rather than the football field (and if you've ever seen Rice play, it's not aesthetically pleasing). Yes, the NBA is in its boring regular season, and the NHL is just plain boring...
...tabloids and a cheering crowd onto Malcolm X Boulevard. It hardly mattered that Mayor Rudy Giuliani already had dibs on the office space (a temporary complication that a presidential advance team would have avoided) or that the inspiration to make the move came to Clinton while he was playing golf at a Florida country club that has been accused of discriminating against blacks and Jews...
...could blunder so badly. Beyond the loss of four 17-year-old students, two teachers and three crew members, the Feb. 9 collision has shaken relations between the U.S. and Japan. And it has knocked Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori--who made the mistake of continuing a round of golf after getting the news--into political peril...