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...count the ways! But your best bet: in September, Scotland's St. Andrews Links (the birthplace of golf), in conjunction with a nearby college, will offer Caddie Connect, the world's only college course in club assistance. Among other topics, you'll study golf etiquette, grooming and how to defuse drunken duffers. Price: $215 for three weeks. Pricey? Note: Tiger Woods' caddie made $1 million last year...
...down-to-earth place. Exile millionaires live quietly amid the 72,000 Manx residents, and the sense of affluence that pervades its sister tax havens, like the more southerly and glamorous Channel Islands, is less evident in this wind-battered scrap of land lying roughly equidistant from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. "We have a northern, gritty approach to things here," says John Cashen, chief financial officer to the Manx Treasury. "We have to work harder for every pound...
...press gets excited about Western school textbooks. More specifically, the press gets excited about the way Japan and the Japanese are depicted in Western school textbooks. A collective howl goes up over the fact that pictures of samurai and geisha still prevail in textbooks from Louisiana or Bavaria or Scotland or wherever. Such images might suggest to ignorant foreigners that modern Japanese still go around brandishing swords. These findings are often followed by instant soundings taken in Paris or Chicago to find out what Westerners really think of Japan. And what Westerners think is rarely found to be satisfactory...
...Thompson: They?ve looked at other sites in Scotland and in the Mediterranean, I think. The problem with the other possible sites is that where Vieques offers every possible training scenario, those other sites maybe offer one or two of those scenarios. So you?d have pilots having to travel to practice different maneuvers. No one site other than Vieques provides such comprehensive capabilities for training...
...Current Senior Tutor Gene McAfee will be leaving Lowell House to join the staff of St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland as assistant minister. He said that Poe is a good match for the House...