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That makes me a bad person. But I must not be alone, because America has a new favorite Christmas movie. A Christmas Story, the 1983 tale about Ralphie (Peter Billingsley), a 9-year-old in 1940s Indiana, and his lust for a Red Ryder air rifle, is everything Wonderful Life is not: satiric and myth-deflating, down to the cranky store Santa kicking Ralphie down a slide. ("You'll shoot your...
...armed golfers will soon step out of obscurity. Just days before next year's Ryder Cup in Louisville, Ky., the North American organization, which Gentry and a group of friends founded in 2000, will square off against Europe's best one-armers in a Cup-style match-play event. This inaugural Fightmaster Cup, named after Louisville resident Don Fightmaster, an Arnold Palmer of the one-armed-golf world, will be an official part of the Ryder Cup festivities...
...some friendly freakfest. Tensions between the Americans and Brits are running high over the question of whether prostheses and other aids have a role in one-armed golf. So much trash talk has been exchanged that the Fightmaster Cup might prove more compelling than that two-armed Ryder Cup thing...
...matter how that dispute plays out, the one-armed event will enhance next year's Ryder Cup by offering some of the most uncommon golf in the world. Any bold predictions from the Brits? "If I did that, I would get shot," says Guy. As for the Americans, no handicap will hinder their hubris. "We're going to set an example right away for the [American] PGA Tour guys," says Alan Gentry, the North American co-founder. "They're going to have no other choice but to follow suit." That almost sounds like a guarantee. Says a smiling Gentry: "Absolutely...
...Junior inductees are Ronald K. Anguas, Konika Banerjee, Curtis K. Chan, Yuyin Chen, Megan E. Galbreth, Gaurav Gulati, Lewis D. Hahn, Alexander N. Harris, Kristen K. Hendricks, Seth P. Herbst, Sara K. Heukerott, Ryder B. Kessler, Julius D. Krein, Jeremy Landau, Roger R. Lee, Tiankai Liu, Katy R. Mahraj, Andrew B. Malone, Jason C. Murray, Genevieve E. Orr, Jay S. Reidler, Timothy H. Schmidt, Carolyn A. Sheehan, and Jordan D. Teti —Staff writer Jamison A. Hill can be reached at jahill@fas.harvard.edu...