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Sorenstam spent Easter Sunday taking a swim. The Swede celebrated victory at the Kraft Nabisco championship, the first LPGA major tournament of the year, by taking the traditional winner's jump into the lake just off the 18th green at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Her mother, sister and caddie all followed. Sorenstam, 34, smashed the field, winning by eight strokes. "I felt like I was in control all week," she said after drying off. "There are tournaments where I've hit the ball better, but this is as solid as I've played...
Such trials can sometimes bring families closer. Marianne Svanberg, 88, a Swede, suffered a massive stroke while visiting her granddaughter Kim Gagne in Santa Rosa, Calif., in January, setting off a bitter generational row between Svanberg's daughters and granddaughters about whether to put her on a feeding tube. At one point, recalls Gagne, 40, "my mother and I had a big blowup, right there in front of the doctor." The granddaughters prevailed, and a tube was inserted, but Svanberg's condition worsened. She died on Feb. 19, leaving a family that was mournful, says Gagne, but knit tighter...
...effortlessly assimilated. The Thai horoscope, for example, is a baffling hybrid of Chinese, Indian and Western systems. Thai beauty queens still scoop their hair into a style called a faaraa, as in Farrah Fawcett. One of the most beloved singers of Thai country music is a Swede called Jonas. This ability to digest foreign influences is sometimes literal: villagers plagued by Bombay locusts 10 years ago solved the problem by frying and eating them...
...Saucy comedy, of the sort Jean Harlow personified, was out, as was the scalding, wiseacre melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck-style. Wong could flash a regal hauteur and, when called for, that sensuality. She could have played grand-dame roles of the sort essayed by Garbo - she certainly could match the Swede for fascination, and self-fascination - but not, say, Marlene Dietrich, whose awareness of her power over men was always comic and ironic...
...globalizing of soccer's labor market really began in earnest during the 1990s. Today's English champions, the London club Arsenal, are managed by a Frenchman, and only two English players feature in their typical starting lineup. When the same club won the championship 15 years ago, a solitary Swede was the only foreigner aboard...