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While amateurs box three rounds of two minutes each, pros are in the ring for much longer. Amateurs also rarely knock people out, since no more points are gained...
Certainly the swooshing sound made last week when Woods, 20, a junior at Stanford, decided to join the pros was unlike that made by any other young player joining the tour. That sound was money, most of it from the Nike Corp., fluttering down on the young phenom, who is suddenly the richest golfer never to have won a professional tournament--in addition to being one of the very best players ever to enter the game...
...novel's unwritten law is that time eventually earns a dispensation for past sins. Tough old pros like Alfred Gronevelt, official owner of the Clericuzio-controlled Xanadu Hotel in Las Vegas, and ruthless Eli Marrion, geriatric head of LoddStone Studios, are, like the Don, the novel's honored guests. Puzo's younger heroes are fewer but conspicuous: the Don's Adonis-like grandnephew Croccifixio ("Cross") De Lena and his film-goddess girlfriend, Athena Aquitane. The book's fools and villains are ruled by passions, impulses and grotesque egos. A degenerate gambler and loudmouthed deadbeat lurches obnoxiously toward his inevitable fate...
...Sometimes people's egos get in their way with negotiation," Bozzotto said. "What he did was in a sense check his ego at the door and really filter through the pros and cons of all the issues that were raised, and then come up with ways that it could be settled...
...task began about four weeks ago while he was refurbishing his tan at his Florida retreat. It was there he resolved that he needed to shake things up dramatically, perhaps make a clean break with the Senate. When he returned to Washington, he discussed in a vague way the pros and cons of such a move with campaign chief Scott Reed. Then on April 23, the day of a desultory telephone conference call to the G.O.P.'s "Team 100" fund raisers, Dole sat in the sun outside his office with novelist and Wall Street Journal contributor Mark Helprin, whose writings...