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TIME asked the three networks that broadcast major golf events - NBC, CBS and ABC/ESPN - to talk about how they have handled the issue. Why did NBC pretty much ignore the scandal last weekend? Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports, offered only this pabulum: "We said what we thought was appropriate to be said given the continuing tabloid nature of the story. We were there to cover a golfing competition. I'm certain there will be a much clearer set of established facts when our PGA Tour coverage resumes next year." CBS will broadcast what some golf pundits expect...
Harvard will get its final shot—at least during the regular season—at an opponent from a major conference on December 23, when the team travels to Washington D.C. to take on Georgetown...
...engagement in Afghanistan and Iraq - we're fighting extremists there so we don't have to fight them here - has taken a beating of late. In September came the arrest of Najibullah Zazi, the Colorado man accused of plotting perhaps the gravest U.S. terrorist attack since 9/11. November saw Major Nidal Malik Hasan gun down 13 people - including 12 of his fellow U.S. soldiers - at Ford Hood, Texas, in the deadliest assault on a military base in U.S. history. The latest blow came Dec. 7, when the U.S. Justice Department filed new charges against David Headley, 49, an American citizen...
...Tuesday, by contrast, when he asked Congress for a second major stimulus effort in a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington, he arrived ready to rumble. In place of extended arms, Obama accused Republicans of presiding "over the decision-making" that led to the financial crisis and then handing it "over to others to solve." He decried his GOP opponents for "waxing political about fiscal responsibility," adding, with an uncustomary bit of sharp sarcasm, "It's a sight to see." (See the 10 greatest speeches of all time...
...Maoist insurgency gripping India's heartland has been blamed for more than 800 violent deaths this year, and will soon be a target of a major counter-offensive by Indian security forces. But the so-called Naxalite movement - as well as the fight against it - has a hidden cost: the education of thousands of India's most vulnerable children, whose schools have been blasted by rebels, occupied by security forces, or both...