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...name designers such as Tom Fazio, Tom Doak, Rees Jones and Ben Crenshaw have all spent time sprucing up older fairways, updating technology and incorporating current golfing trends. Rees (the Open Doctor) Jones, whose nickname refers to his knack for transforming older courses into U.S. Open--worthy playgrounds, says about a third of his projects are fairway refurbishments. "There is a trend now to get away from the modern and build it back in the classical style," says Jones (brother and rival of Robert). He recently remodeled the Highlands Course at the Atlanta Athletic Club...
...squeezed and threatened by the newcomers. Part of the anxiety is undeniably race based. Fox News's Bill O'Reilly leavened his reluctant support for the Senate bill with warnings that it "drastically alters" a country that is already "one-third minority." Others worry about language preservation. Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado gave a breathless defense of the English language at the G.O.P. debate, saying that bilingualism has failed other countries and that the U.S. was fast headed in that direction. Yes, it's true: Mexicans speak Spanish. Relax. Mexicans also know that English is the key to getting...
...debatable whether getting trashed and uploading your drunken rendition of “Fat-Bottomed Girls” to YouTube is the sort of risk schools want to encourage. Subjecting everyone involved in a student government scandal or newspaper plagiarism case to the same treatment as Tom DeLay or Jayson Blair would stunt growth more than thalidomide. Better to let students screw up privately now instead of publicly later...
...best finish of the season. Despite finishing in the bottom half of the field in six tournaments, the Crimson regarded this year as laying the groundwork for future success. “Significant improvement and gaining experience was what this season was all about,” captain Tom Hegge said. Throughout the fall season, Harvard introduced five freshmen to the athletic, academic, and social challenges of college golf. From the start, the team called on them to produce results. Freshmen Danny Mayer and Greg Shuman competed for the Crimson in all five fall tournaments, and freshman Peter Singh made...
After losing All-American Tom Mikula and Peter Doyle, among others, to graduation, the new defensive corps is talented, but young and inexperienced...