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...schism between Woods and Mickelson dates back at least two years, to when Mickelson called Woods' Nike clubs "inferior." Woods boiled. "It was a little sucker punch," says Fred Funk, this year's Players-championship winner. "That creates a bit of animosity between the guys." Mickelson apologized, but the bad blood spilled over to last fall's Ryder Cup, at which U.S. captain Hal Sutton paired Woods and Mickelson against European opponents. Although teammates, they could barely look at each other. It didn't help that Mickelson played like a Sunday hacker; when he sliced an 18th-hole drive into...
...Originally conceived by publisher Kim Eoun Ho as a "book village" similar to Hay-on-Wye in Wales, Heyri has evolved to embrace the whole gamut of the arts since its reinvention began in 2001. Today, more than 70 artists, musicians, writers and cineasts - including director Park Chan Wook, winner of the Cannes Grand Prix 2004 for his film Old Boy - have settled in the 500,000-sq-m valley, 40 minutes north of Seoul. The community is still a work in progress (60 buildings have been completed and 20 are under construction), but tourists will find plenty...
DIED. ROBERT CREELEY, 78, among the most influential American poets of the past half-century and the 1999 winner of the Bollingen Prize, poetry's top honor; of pneumonia; in Odessa, Texas. Rejecting the strict metric schemes of the academics, Creeley captured emotions with a spare, conversational style that assumed an intimacy with readers. In A Wicker Basket, he wrote, "There are very huge stars, man, in the sky/ and from somewhere very far off someone hands me a slice of apple...
Sorenstam spent Easter Sunday taking a swim. The Swede celebrated victory at the Kraft Nabisco championship, the first LPGA major tournament of the year, by taking the traditional winner's jump into the lake just off the 18th green at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Her mother, sister and caddie all followed. Sorenstam, 34, smashed the field, winning by eight strokes. "I felt like I was in control all week," she said after drying off. "There are tournaments where I've hit the ball better, but this is as solid as I've played...
...pygmy owl but a total of 55 threatened species--while leaving room for housing development in nonsensitive desert regions. "We believed it was better to be at one table rather than have a huge fight," says Bill Arnold, one of the county's biggest Realtors. "Everyone was a winner...