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...engineer, Norman grew up in Townsville, Australia, in subtropical Queensland. The prevailing Australian ethos held that "if you don't get hit, it isn't a sport," so Norman played Australian Rules football, essentially a riot with goalposts. When he was 16 his mother, a low-handicap amateur of Finnish descent, gave him two of Nicklaus' books. The boy read them and decided to give golf a try. It soon became clear that the late starter was a prodigy. Greg's father Merv recalls that he made "phenomenal progress," shooting par within 18 months of first picking up a golf...
Remember, as this year's crop of candidates shows, don't get too attached to any one activity. Not only will it prevent you from studying, it will handicap your efforts to accumulate activities and positions and keep you from going outside and pressing the flesh...
Something has truly gone awry in 1988, as the election becomes transformed into a handlers' handicap. More than any other race in history, this has become a narrow-gauge contest between two disciplined teams of political professionals. The problem is not the caliber of the candidates, since both Bush and Dukakis have stronger claims to competence than many who have sought the office. Rather it is their passive and uncritical acceptance of the premises of modern political manipulation. Bush flogs patriotism at a flag factory, the far more restrained Dukakis joyrides in a tank, and neither seems embarrassed...
Herrera's image in Panama is another handicap. A nephew of the late Panamanian Dictator Omar Torrijos, he led military crackdowns against civilian protesters in the former Canal Zone in the 1960s. Called home from Israel by Noriega last year to help repress demonstrations, he did so with what some considered an overly strong hand. Still, if Herrera could topple Noriega and keep the military out of politics while a democratic government emerged, that would more than satisfy U.S. interests. It might also be something of a miracle...
...think someone who comes from outsideWashington...comes with a handicap, whether youlike it or not," Ford said, in a not-too-subtlejab at Dukakis...