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...jacket after last year's Masters, says being defending champ is an advantage. Only three players have repeated at Augusta: Nicklaus (1965-66), Nick Faldo (1989-90) and Woods (2001-02). "I hadn't won a major, so I had that mental hurdle to get by, which tends to wear on you over time," Mickelson says. "I don't anticipate it being harder to win." Indeed, Mickelson is also coming off back-to-back wins in February...
...unusual for Americans who visit North Vietnam to be taken to see Vietnamese military installations, and when they do they are always required to wear a helmet like the kind I have been given to wear during the air raids. I am driven to the site of the antiaircraft installation, somewhere on the outskirts of the city. There is a group of about a dozen young Vietnamese soldiers in uniform who greet me. There is also a horde of photographers and journalists--many more than I have seen all in one place in Hanoi. (I later learn some of them...
...sing sings to AIDS wards, provide a social context for the raskols in "PNG" (the show opens this week), it is Dupont's 30 portraits that are more likely to challenge the way Australians see their neighbors. As well as flaunting hand-made guns and machetes, these criminals proudly wear Rugby League jerseys and Australian-flag bandanas. For gallery goers, it's a disturbing mix of the familiar and the strange...
...refugees in Aceh made its presence unnecessary. Thirty-three million dollars raised by the group for reconstruction may now have to be returned to donors or diverted to other causes. MEANWHILE IN JAPAN... Sumo Squabble Guardians of the ancient Japanese sport of sumo blocked moves to allow competitors to wear short-like "sumo pants" rather than the traditional loin-cloth. Amateurs had hoped to spur youth interest by allowing more modest gear, but the professional body insists it has "no intention of allowing children in pants into the ring...
...this bias is to distinguish cognitively disabled persons from persons whose disabilities are “just” physical. Cognitively disabled people are shown a manifest lack of respect in daily life, as well. This has gotten so perturbing to me that when I fly, I try to wear my Harvard t-shirt so I can “pass” as a person without cognitive disability. (I have severe cerebral palsy, the result of being deprived of oxygen at birth. While some people with cerebral palsy do have cognitive disability, my articulation difference and atypical muscle tone...