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/ 11 February 2005
Phil Mickelson birdied six of the first eight holes and broke the Spyglass Hill course record on Thursday with a 10-under 62 that gave him a three-shot lead in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. He took advantage of pristine conditions on the Monterey Peninsula, with brilliant blue skies and only a trace of wind.
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/ 11 February 2005
In the words of Bobby Kennedy, there’s nothing like a good old-fashioned race riot. No sir, said Bobby one day while we were dynamiting for trout in the Oswald Pirow dam, you can’t beat watching tolerance-mongering New Englanders give in to the overwhelming urge to leave tyre-iron-shaped depressions in ‘fros, or iron-willed Nation of Islam acolytes renounce their pacifism just long enough to perform avante garde rhinoplasties on smug beaky Caucasian noses with baseball bats.
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/ 11 February 2005
An elegant young Chechen, her head bared in defiance of tradition and her feet cosseted in fine shoes, never falters in her animated cellphone conversation even when a Russian armoured car passes her on a Grozny street lined with gutted houses.
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/ 11 February 2005
David Talbot, founder of the online magazine Salon, stepped down as editor-in-chief and as the publishing company’s chief executive on Thursday — the same day the struggling company reported its first profit ever. ”It’s an excellent time for me to move into a new role,” said Talbot, who is working on a book about John and Robert Kennedy.
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/ 11 February 2005
A German tourist has sent a stone he found in historic ruins back to Thailand, blaming it for three years’ of bad luck, officials said on Friday. The Tourism Authority of Thailand said the tourist, Michael Beil, told officials that he found the stone in 2001 during a visit to a temple in the old royal capital of Ayutthaya and took it home to Germany.
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/ 11 February 2005
A South African National Defence Force Lance-Corporal has been arrested for being absent without leave after he had started working for the Correctional Services department as an assistant director. He was nabbed where he worked in the office of the correctional services’ regional commissioner for the North West, Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces in Pretoria.
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/ 11 February 2005
Farmers in Liechtenstein will no longer be allowed to feed cannabis to their livestock under new rules to be introduced in March in the tiny Alpine state. Hemp contains small amounts of THC, the active substance in hashish, and traces of the drug have been filtering through to the milk of dairy cows fed with the plant.
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/ 11 February 2005
Café King, a bar in Berlin’s fashionable Charlottenburg district, is at the centre of a match-fixing scandal that has sent shockwaves through Germany’s football establishment, and has heaped growing embarrassment on the nation as it prepares to host the 2006 World Cup.
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/ 11 February 2005
Look, it’s no good pretending. It’s going to take more than a little slip-up against Manchester City to let the rest catch Chelsea this season. But there is hope after that 0-0 draw, which was inspired by Manchester City’s bigger-than-he-looks David James. But it’s not an on-field, close-the-nine-point gap sort of hope. It’s called ”tapping up”.
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/ 11 February 2005
If the world were a just place, Wednesday night’s emphatic victory by South Africa would have come as an immense relief to United Cricket Board boss Gerald Majola. Indeed, in a utopian society where merit was rewarded and ineptitude censured, Majola would have trundled down on to the Buffalo Park turf and given Graeme Smith a hug.