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...PHIL MICKELSON, 33, the Masters tournament, his first victory in any of golf's four "majors," after 47 tries; in Augusta, Georgia. One year after his worst season, he acquired a new swing and a slimmer physique and, with a dramatic birdie putt on the 18th hole, won the coveted green blazer...
Then something funny happened on Sunday. The Sox game was on, yet the final round of The Masters simultaneously was taking place—wherein my favorite golfer, Phil Mickelson—was trying to win his first Major ever after a career of disappointments and top-three finishes without a win. As I flipped back and forth at every lull in the action of the Sox game or every time a golfer besides Mickelson was being shown, both Mickelson and the Sox faltered early as both Ernie Els and the Blue Jays took early leads...
...with the violence intensifying and the insurgents beginning to define their enemy targets more broadly, Asians are being forced to realize that this kind of nightmare is likely to recur?and that is leading many to reconsider the danger of getting caught in the cross fire. Yi Sung Phil, an official with South Korea's left-leaning Democratic Labor Party, sums up what is an increasingly widespread sentiment in Asia: "This is a fight between the United States and the Iraqi people, so we should stay...
...Location, agents are not the buyers' friends--they shrewdly hide flaws in houses and connive to jack up the bids. Hosts Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help their clients play hardball in negotiating (an operatic conflict the U.S. shows inexplicably ignore). This is probably a cultural difference; the American shows are much sunnier about the market as a benevolent force. Not that Location's buyers and their families are necessarily innocent either. One buyer's sister persuades her not to bid on a prospective house because, we learn, Sis wants the place for herself. Backbiting relatives, subterfuge and money squabbles...
...Between midterms and the travel we’ve been doing and with us getting ready on spring break,” said volunteer assistant coach Phil Parrish, “we just felt like we didn’t want [the kids in the lineup] to play too much. A lot of them have played...