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...Americans used to target golf on manicured greens, this links-style course is a different sport--more blustery St. Andrews than pristine Augusta. It's also a superintendent's dream: tough fescue grass makes up 94% of this Pacific Northwest terrain, requiring half the water and half the work of traditional courses. "I can't get over how few pesticides and fertilizers we need," says David Wienecke, Chambers Bay course superintendent. "We have the same standard of quality for 30% to 40% less cost...
...Martin Peretz, the editor-in-chief of The New Republic and a close friend of Summers, said that Summers must be relieved to not always feel like he has a target on his back...
Even in so grave a situation as the genocide in Darfur, the Harvard Corporation is front and center as the target of activism. Divestment of its holdings from two Chinese oil companies was accomplished last year—but it brought no financial loss to the real offenders. (Speculators jubilantly bought up what Harvard sold, and they and Chinese oil alike won on the deal). Some reply this activism was better than nothing; in fact, it was equal to nothing. It even failed to deliver the promised, lasting “awareness” of the genocide, which has once...
...biggest obstacle comes from Moscow, where President Vladimir Putin told reporters this week that Russia might again target countries in Europe that accept such a system. "If a part of the strategic nuclear potential of the United States appears in Europe and, in the opinion of our military specialists, will threaten us, then we will have to take appropriate steps in response," Putin said in comments released Monday by the Kremlin. "What kind of steps? We will have to have new targets in Europe...
...shied away from dissenting over missile defense. And abroad there is some willingness to go along with the U.S. in the face of public resistance. Czech President Vaclav Klaus today said he supported Bush's program, despite 60% disapproval among Czechs. All of which means that even threats to target European countries are unlikely to shake the U.S.'s will to deploy, setting the two countries on an increasingly tense course for the final 18 months of Bush's Presidency...