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Korean golfer Si Re Pak begins play at the Du Maurier Open in Windsor, Ontario. The lady has been outperforming even Tiger this year, shooting the lowest round in LPGA history, and this weekend she could become only the fourth woman to win three major tournaments in one year...
...liked his stalwart, outspoken style. Others found him too undignified to be the new democracy's head of state. Brilliant as a people's tribune, he stumbled over long formal speeches. You never felt he was quite comfortable in the role. When he stayed with the British Queen at Windsor Castle, he characteristically quipped that the bed was so big, he couldn't find his wife...
...Sale price of a 2.4 oz. piece of cake from the 1937 wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor that was auctioned off last week...
This particular auction represents a rescheduling of the one that was being planned shortly before the death of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, son of Mohammad al Fayed, who had originally intended the Windsor auction to further enrich his world. Now, the net proceeds will go to a charitable foundation, which is proper and commendable but does not change the basic invasive nature of these events...
Neutral, perhaps, but by no means dispassionate, as one saw, even in distant Karuizawa, a chic summer resort that found itself the host for curling competitions. Not far from the Pension England House Windsor, the town held its very own opening ceremonies, with its own parade of athletes, its own concert of bagpipers and Japanese drums. As the competition got under way, the Kazakoshi Park Arena--not unlike a high school gym--was filled with Japanese primary schoolchildren, old ladies blowing Piccolo Mini Cheer Horns and a crowd of Canadians crying, "Come on, button boy. Stop, baby, stop." Here...