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...nine men's tournaments she was invited to, she chose the Colonial because the course favors shotmakers, not ball whackers. At 7,080 yds.--with one par five that stretches 609 yds.--the Colonial is still 700 yds. longer than the typical LPGA setup. But it is also the kind of classic course Sorenstam loves, with narrow, tree-lined fairways, deep, ball-eating bunkers and small, slick greens. "Length is not the most important thing," says Colonial head pro Dow Finsterwald Jr. "This is a position golf course"--a plus for Sorenstam, one of the most accurate hitters...
Against a player like Singh, she'll be giving up 20 to 25 yds. on each drive, leaving her with longer, more difficult second shots. On some long par fours, she'll be hitting a harder-to-control 6-iron when Singh will be hitting a wedge. On par fives, she'll be at a particular disadvantage, since the men can reach the green in two. She'll need three. Her goal is to shoot even par and to make the cut, which last year was at three over. "If I don't succeed," she says, "people will...
...female golf pro, at the Bank of America Colonial golf tournament, the first woman in 58 years to compete in a Professional Golf Association Tour event; in Fort Worth, Texas. Sörenstam, who last year won 13 titles, made her fairway debut on Thursday with a one-over-par 71. But despite best wishes from pros, fans and even U.S. President George W. Bush, Sörenstam's 74 on the second day of play wasn't enough for her to make the cut. She ended up tied for 96th place out of 111 players after the two rounds...
Krugman and his fellow ideologues aren’t admitting that it’s the war, not just Bush, which is popular with Americans. Pre-war CNN polls showed that more than 60 percent of Americans supported military intervention in Iraq, on par with Bush’s approval ratings. The roughly equal percentages make sense. Bush can serve his political ambitions only by catering to the electorate; if the war did indeed serve Bush’s personal aspirations, it must also have been a war that most Americans believed was just. In our democracy, ambition can?...
...availability of physical comforts beyond basic necessities is also growing. Lower prices of raw materials and energy signal that they are less scarce, easier to find and cheaper to produce. Aluminum was considered a rare precious metal on par with gold and silver only 100 years ago, but technology has made its extraction cheap and its supply essentially unlimited. Demand for just 12 metals makes up more than 99 percent of world demand for all metals, and supply of those 12 is now considered inexhaustible. Oil prices have fallen over tenfold in the last century while the amount of proven...