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...137th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale near Liverpool was not supposed to be a joyous affair. Going into the final day's play, in fact, all signs suggested a narrative of torment, inner demons and redemption in the clutches of the body's inexorable decline. That was all taking place in the livin'-large form of 53-year-old third-round leader Greg Norman. But on the final day, the Australian thrashed and grimaced his way to yet another near-miss at a major championship. As one of golf's great comeback stories unraveled in Birkdale's wispy rough...
...front-of-the-pack victory was at Turnberry in 1986). He will remain one of the sport's great tragic figures, his career marked by bad luck (consider the 1987 Masters, when Larry Mize miraculously holed a 140-foot chip shot in a sudden-death playoff) but also an inner flaw linked to overreaching (see the final round of the 1996 Masters, when a six-stroke lead turned into a five-stroke loss...
...Britain is rich, but a sizable minority of its children live in squalor, their prospects occluded by their bad start in life. Social mobility is low compared with other advanced nations - 31% of children in inner London and 22% nationally are growing up in poverty, which will only increase with spiraling fuel and food costs and a stuttering job market. More than 9% of 16-to-18-year-olds are not currently enrolled in any form of education, employment or job training...
...doctors and spiritual gurus on his return to top form is not unusual for a professional golfer; the debate over whether the game is best mastered through technical engineering or mental fine-tuning may be more pertinent to this sport than to any other. When Tim Gallwey published The Inner Game of Golf in 1979, in which he documented the division of a golfer's psyche into a "thinking" and a "feeling" self, he articulated what lovers of the game have long understood: there are two approaches to becoming a great golfer, and each appeals to a certain type...
...book emerged on my inner agenda without my planning it," says Lessing, sitting in the ramshackle North London home where she has lived for 25 years. In a career spanning six decades she has churned out nearly 50 books on an old-fashioned typewriter. But at 88, she insists that Alfred and Emily will be her last. Lessing says her energy has been sapped by ever-increasing burdens, such as taking care of her middle-aged diabetic son and dealing with the publicity she has faced since becoming the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature last October. "When...