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DIED. HERBERT WARREN WIND, 88, writer of elegant prose on golf for the New Yorker and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED; of pneumonia; in Bedford, Mass. The author of 14 books, he coined the term Amen Corner to describe three consecutive treacherous, prayer-inducing holes on the back nine at Augusta National, home of the Masters...
Complicating that danger, home buyers have turned to some risky strategies to afford their purchases. Nothing-down, interest-only and "negative amortization" (in which you wind up paying so little each month that your loan amount grows larger, though hopefully your house's value rises faster) mortgages are on the rise. Such loans can pay off--if you sell within a few years at a profit. But if interest rates rise and home values stall or--gasp!fall, those borrowers may become overwhelmed by steadily rising payments. (Household monthly debt costs are already at an all-time high.) Even...
...Harvard’s loftiest upset aspirations disappeared with a low, inside Morgalis fastball that Fullerton outfielder Danny Dorn golfed into the netting high above right field, and which appeared to rise with the wind...
...noble plants": plum blossoms, which flower before the snows melt, symbolize the hope of spring; chrysanthemums, the hardiness to survive in autumn; orchids, refinement and modesty; and bamboo, loyalty, because it bends but never breaks. This steadfastness is celebrated in an exquisite silk hanging scroll, Bamboo Blowing in the Wind by Yi Chong (1541-1626), a royal prince who is considered the greatest Korean painter of bamboo. You can almost feel the breeze as the dark leaves float away from their own ethereal shadows, an effect Yi achieves by altering the proportion of water to ink on his brush. Animals...
...nine men are buried in a stony field beyond an orchard of pomegranate trees in the village of Zambar, in eastern Afghanistan. Above their graves, multi-colored flags ripple in the mountain wind - deceptively cheerful reminders of the black day when Australia's Special Air Service came to this valley...