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...Lord help those PGA pros if Tiger takes his personal transgressions out on them. He has already demonstrated his considerable powers of concentration on the golf course while juggling his, um, complicated family life, which has included the birth of two children, the death of his father, major knee surgery and rebuilding his golf swing. He's still Tiger Woods. Not John Daly...
Last week, 32 young Americans won Rhodes Scholarships. Their tenures at Oxford are funded by the legacy of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, a man whose life would not be honored today were it not for his scholarships—and specifically his vision that young people of outstanding intellect, leadership, and ambition could make the world a better place...
That said, Cook asserts that Woods is being subjected to a public double standard: we expect him to tell us and the police more about his private life than he should have to, "certainly more than Joe Schmo would probably have to offer under similar circumstances." That may be so, but if investigators do eventually find evidence that Woods hasn't been as up-front as he should have been - that he might have been under the influence of painkillers after last year's knee surgery, or that he and his Swedish model wife (who told police she smashed...
...Most of all, I know that this decision asks even more of you - a military that, along with your families, has already borne the heaviest of all burdens. As President, I have signed a letter of condolence to the family of each American who gives their life in these wars. I have read the letters from the parents and spouses of those who deployed. I have visited our courageous wounded warriors at Walter Reed. I have traveled to Dover to meet the flag-draped caskets of 18 Americans returning home to their final resting place. I see firsthand the terrible...
...After gaining U.S. citizenship in 1958, Demjanjuk lived an unassuming life with his family in Cleveland, Ohio, working at a Ford car factory until evidence surfaced suggesting he had been an SS guard at the Treblinka death camp in Poland. The U.S. government revoked his citizenship and, in 1987, Demjanjuk went on trial in Israel, accused of being the notorious guard Ivan the Terrible. He was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. But in 1993, his conviction was overturned on appeal by the Israeli Supreme Court, which ruled that he wasn't the guard in question. Demjanjuk...