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...system, would testify that stoicism and the stiff upper lip are not dead in Britain. That day they were quietly but thrillingly on display as the city went about its business uncowed. Britain's new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is a son of a minister of the Church of Scotland--Protestantism does not get more muscularly reserved than that--and his political appeal is based much more on experience than empathy. In the U.S., by the same token, Mitt Romney (like Brown, a man born to wear a dark suit) is running on competence rather than feeling. As for Hillary...
...warm welcome. Mark Parsinen, who oversaw Kingsbarns, a successful public course near St. Andrews, said developers are mistaken if they think St. Andrews can be to golf what Aspen has become to skiing. "It is fascinating to watch how wealthy golfers willingly go downmarket in Scotland. It's something to do with the pilgrim mentality. Do they want friendly service and quality products while they are traveling? Of course. Do they want white-glove glitz? Not in great numbers," he said. The town is still scarred from the failure of two high-end properties--Drumoig Golf Centre and the Gateway...
Still, St. Andrews has become the focal point of a boom in extravagant American-financed developments in Scotland. Seven are in the works, including a $500 million development in Aberdeenshire by Donald Trump, who claims, with characteristic Trumpian restraint, that he will build "the best golf course in the world." He told TIME that his project is not a follower of this trend but rather its cause: "I think I've done a lot to help put Scotland...
Past failures don't scare Americans. They believe in location, and in golf, Scotland is it. You can understand why on late-summer evenings in St. Andrews. Often a white sheet of mist, known locally as haar, spreads over the Old Course from the North Sea, as if the spirits of the world's great golfers were tucking their cherished course into bed. Through the mist, golfers place white balls on tees as though lighting sacramental candles. Or is that Americans praying for a fat return on their grand investments...
...Jihad: The Musical, currently playing at Scotland's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, bills itself as a "madcap gallop through the wacky world of international terrorism." The satire features 12 original songs, including "Building a Bomb Today" and "I Only See Your Eyes," a love ballad sung to a veiled extremist...