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The Business of Golf

From an article in The Wall Street Journal: "A growing number of major companies--including Marriott Corp., International Business Machines Corp., and Merrill Lynch & Co.--are sending young executives to `business golf' experts to learn the art of selling themselves on the fairway.... The courses, which cost up to $5,000 a session and usually combine lectures with time on the greens, feature discussions of such topics as `When do you talk business on the course?' and quizzes on golf rules."

Great Communicator

From an article on the Houston Chronicle's web page about Harold Gunn, Republican candidate for state representative, who wrote and acted in the soft-core adult film The Great Texas Showoff "`It was a blast, something I did twenty years ago,' Gunn said. `My God, I have been around forever. It's just no big deal. It shows I am a great communicator and that's all.'... The movie, most of which takes place inside a topless club, features nude women dancing, jogging through neighborhood streets, and lathering themselves with motor oil. Gunn said the movie is not pornography. `There is no sex and no dirty language,' Gunn said. `It's as tasteful as it can get with naked women in it. But they are all pretty.'"

Pistol-Packin' Party

From an Associated Press article in The Boston Globe datelined Westminster, Maryland, on a sixty-six-year-old woman who won a Beretta 9mm semiautomatic pistol in a Republican Party raffle: "Helen Roop, a registered Republican and retired Carroll County finance department worker, opted for the handgun and shooting classes over the alternative prize of $500. She must pass a background check before getting the pistol."

What's in a Name? Part I

From the web page of The Tampa Tribune on changing the name of a south Tampa subdivision, which has been called Swastika since 1911: "Councilwoman Linda Saul-Sena, who initiated the move to change the name, suggested three possible names to replace Swastika: Bay View, Southside, and Millennium.... William Clarke has lived in Swastika for more than fifty years and opposes the change. Clarke said he prefers to remember the term `swastika' for what it meant before Hitler tainted it."

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