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...Boathouse Bar, a longtime favorite watering hole of Harvard students, will remain in business for at least a little while longer, despite concern that a lease dispute could have forced the bar to close at the end of October...
WHAT?! you scream. A bunch of elitist, corporate-sponsored jerks in long pants trying to whack a white ball into a little hole. And some people watch this on television and call it sport...
Maybe I'm tempting the baseball fan among you. Think about it--a 72-hole golf tournament is not unlike a miniature of baseball's 162-day pennant race. The drama builds, slowly at first, and then wildly as two, three, maybe four golfers charge down the stretch run with birdies and bogeys flying. Heck, the back nine on Sunday at The Masters can be an entire September's worth of dramatic moments...
Perhaps Rachel does not mean the question geographically. Perhaps I should answer that I consider myself a fairly liberal feminist with an odd sense of humor. Or that I grew up without a TV and therefore have a vast hole in my basic cultural knowledge...
...this Sunday's New York Times, Anna Quindlen writes--in response, in part, to Carter's work--that "there is a yawning hole in all the psyche of America and Americans" where there should be spiritual satisfaction. Now, people are starting to agree, it's time to patch that hole...