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...warning the press - in particular the paparazzi - to stay away from his wife and kids. The tabloid press has absolutely no rules; they could care less about his feelings or his family. I can't wait for him to go after some photog with a 9-iron. (See pictures of Elin Nordegren, Tiger Woods' wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger's Apology: A TIME Discussion | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...Ratnesar: I agree that there were some false notes, like the overheated, straw-man defense of Elin - she "deserves praise, not blame." Uh, sorry, but who's blaming her? Among those who think she really did go after him with a 9-iron, most would agree with Jesper Parnevik: she should have used a driver. And there was a brief section early in the speech in which he extolled all the good works being done by the Tiger Woods Foundation - while it was nice to hear that those projects will continue, it also felt discordantly self-serving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger's Apology: A TIME Discussion | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...first attempt bounced off the back iron, but he made the second to tie things up at 66. Zampier’s desperation heave was well off the mark, sending the Ancient Eight rivals into overtime...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Survives OT Thriller, Stays in Title Hunt | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...cooking contest is downright bizarre. Why not have a kissing contest? Or a baby-naming battle? The notion of taking something so subjective, personal and essentially un-competitive as cooking and making a Mortal Kombat-style tournament seems, at least on its surface, patently insane. (The original Japanese Iron Chef took this as a given, and presented the contests as the whim of a wealthy madman.) If you've ever participated in a cook-off, you know how meaningless the scoring is, how opaque and arbitrary the judges' standards are, how random and unpredictable the results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Bocuse d'Or Says About Culinary Culture | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...anything, cooking contests have become an inescapable part of our culture: Top Chef remains a ratings juggernaut, and The Food Network's Iron Chef likewise. Competition barbecue gets bigger every year. And even on the local level, every city is seeing more and more local cook-offs, from high-end ones like Cochon 555 that feature some of the best chefs in town, to pro-am affairs like the Cassoulet Contest or Meatball Slapdown, events I recently judged in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Bocuse d'Or Says About Culinary Culture | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

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