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...gatekeepers of Georgia's private golf clubs seem to be hitting nothing but bogeys these days. First there were the troubles at Augusta National, home of the Masters tournament, where chairman Hootie Johnson gave a bulldog's performance to keep a woman from joining his all-male club last year. Now another exclusive Peach State club, Atlanta's Druid Hills Golf Club, is facing pressure on the gay-rights front in a dispute that has pitted the city's country-club elite against the Atlanta political establishment...
...Boris Johnson - one of those rumpled British prodigies who manages to be both a journalist and a Conservative Member of Parliament - who best captured the disbelief of the Tory party last week. "It is just flipping unbelievable," Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph. His party's nemesis, he added, "is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness." The escape artist, of course, was Prime Minister Tony Blair, who had managed to slip out of a political bind - make that two of them - that could have forced him from office. On Tuesday...
...sure, there's something to be said for trying out your hardware and survival skills at a campsite only three days from home as opposed to one seven months distant. Wendell Mendell, Johnson Space Center planetary scientist, worries about the physical and psychological effects of a long Mars mission and agrees that the moon is a good place to try out survival skills. "The attitude is, They're astronauts, they're tough, stick 'em in a tuna can--it doesn't matter," he says. "But it does. That's why the moon is important...
Though Bush's proposal gives a booster-size lift to NASA, his devotion to the space agency is a recent conversion. He showed no great fascination with the space program while he was Governor of Texas. He never visited the Johnson Space Center even though it was just around the corner, and saw the idea of space exploration through the prism of education, his signature "big idea" back then. But White House aides say that after the Columbia disaster, Bush became intent on reviving NASA, pushing for a concrete, results-oriented plan and dismissing an incremental option that focused merely...
...does on yellow legal pads. Clinton has told friends that he wants his memoirs to be like the riveting bestseller that Ulysses Grant wrote and that helped restore his tarnished reputation. (He's also said that he wants to avoid the kinds of tomes that Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson wrote after their presidencies because they had a pompous tone that missed their real voice.) There is no ghostwriter. Then Clinton goes over the sections with his editor, the legendary Bob Gottlieb, formerly of The New Yorker...