Golf's gender debate flares as Sorenstam plays men's event
Our View argues professional golf highlights ongoing gender inequality. Anika Sorenstam plans to compete in a Texas men's tournament while stars like Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods skip due to controversy. The piece condemns the segregated system and notes Sorenstam's desire to test her game against the world's best.
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Martha Burk
Augusta National Golf Club
Burk
Augusta
Anika Sorenstam
Texas
Vijay Singh
Sorenstam
Tiger Woods
Worshippers toast Pope John Paul II on 83rd birthday
Polish worshippers visiting the Vatican toast Pope John Paul II on his 83rd birthday with the remark may you live 100 years. Senator Rick Santorum, speaking at Saint Joseph's University, urges love for all despite recent clashes with gay groups. Cameron Mackintosh ends Les Miserables run after 16 years and 6,680 performances.
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The
Vatican
John Paul II
Sen
Rick Santorum
Saint Joseph’s University
Au Revoir
Cameron Mackintosh
May 19 in history through the years
A concise chronology marks May 19 anniversaries: 1935 T E Lawrence dies in England after motorcycle crash. 1643 New England delegates form a Boston confederation. 1906 Federated Boys' Clubs organized. 1921 Emergency Quota Act establishes immigration caps. 1943 Churchill pledges wartime aid to Japan. 1958 NORAD formed. 1962 Monroe performs Happy Birthday to JFK. 1964 Moscow embassy microphones found. 1967 USSR US Britain ban space nuclear weapons. 1992 27th Amendment takes effect. 1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies. 2003 note of anniversary items including Travel Office firing and Galaxy 4 outage. art theft in Rome.
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T.E. Lawrence
Lawrence of Arabia
England
New England
Boston
Federated
Boys’ Clubs
Boys’ Clubs of America
Congress
President Kennedy
State Department
U.S
Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
New York
White House
Pulse Reader Forum Editor Contact Info
Forum editor details published for reader submissions by fax number and postal address in Garden City Kansas. Attn Editor line directs readers to send correspondence to 310 N Ext 201 St Garden City KS 67846 and provides a fax option at 620 275 2704.
Kansas budget, private investigators stir concerns in Topeka
Kansas faces a looming billion dollar hole despite modest cuts while governor and GOP lawmakers work on a plan. Westar audit reveals private investigators targeted journalist Jim McLean and KU professor Dennis Dailey class, raising alarm about free expression. Chancellor honors Mark Joslyn amid funding worries. Burdett Loomis notes journalism and academia must stay free from intimidation.
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Topeka
Kansas
Lexis-Nexis
Florida
Alabama
Riley
Washington State
California
New York
GOP
Arthur Anderson
Enron
WorldCom
Westar
David Wittig
Topeka Capital-Journal
Jim McLean
Wittig
Jim
McLean
Dennis Dailey
Dailey
McLean and Dailey
Susan Wagle
Mark Joslyn
Mark
Diversity and the Jayson Blair scandal at The Times
A critique of two journalism protection rackets the affirmative action and old boys networks. The piece blasts Jayson Blair for fabrications at The New York Times and questions newsroom responses, arguing true diversity is essential for good journalism and that phony diversity harms reporting.
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Jayson Blair
The
New York Times
Blair
Times
Blair Culpa
the Times
Jonathan Landman
Jayson
National Desk
America
Old Boys
Hernandez
Mike Barnicle
Stephen Glass
Barnicle
George Carlin
Boston Globe
MSNBC
New York Daily News
Glass
New Republic
Rolling Stone
George
United States
Alphabet Soup for Monday World Terms A to Z
A compendium style list tracing global names places and terms from Afghanistan to Zakhov. It catalogs figures nations events and items spanning politics media conflict religion and culture in a dense alphabetic panorama.
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Steve Delaney
Delaney
Bae Sis
Baghdad
NEMA
Eee Nsults Fly
Associated Press
U.S. Congress
Winston Churchill
Japan
Canada
North American Air Defense Command
Madison Square Garden
Marilyn Monroe
Earth
Rome
van Gogh
Cezanne
National Gallery of Modern Art
the Pulse Reader Forum
H St
Garden City
By E-mah
Harris News Service
Burdett Loomis
bloomis @ku
University of Kansas
AEDA
Roger Hernandez
King Features Syndicate
Dolores Hope Garden City Telegram
Afghanistan
al Jazeera
al Qaeda
Arab
Atkins
Ashcroft
Abu Dhab Television
Andretti
Ayatollahs
Amman
Aryan Nations
APHIS
al Jahrah B
Basra
Bashar Assad
Bechtel
Baath Party
Bohl
Bob Hope
Bob Frederick
Bishkek
Bahrain
Philip Berrigan
E — EU
Embedded
Enron Corp
Art
Euphrates River
Evil
Exxon Mobil
Elena Dementieva
Emmaus House
F — France
FARC
Fleischer
Frank Logoglu
Fleetwood Mace
Gerhard Schroeder Gambling
Raul Grijalva
Greenspan
H — Hezbollah
Henry Hyde
Home Depot
Habitat For Humanity
Halliburton
Kaiku
Hinrich
Hussein
Human Rights Watch
Humvee
Hamas
Iraq
Israel
Iran
Illini
Islam
J — Jacques Chirac
Jayhawks
Jihad K
Kuwait
Kathleen
Kut
Karbala
Kirkuk
Kofi Annan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Nigeria
North Carolina
New Hope Ministry
Nancy Pelosi
O— Osama bin Laden
Olusegun Obasanjo
Omar al Issawi
Oman
OGLE
Pakistan
Pyongyang
Palestine
Q— Qaeda
Qatar
Qusay
Qaiyara
S — Saddam
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Samarra
Sayyid
Abu Murtadah al-Yasiri
Bill Self
Seoul
Serbia
Montenegro
Sinn Fein
Southern Poverty Law Center
Samir Abd al-Aziz al- Najim
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tikrit
Tigris River
Tommy Franks
Tommy Lee
Tubby Smith
Tehran
Tom DeLay
Tallil
US United Nations
Uzbekistan
Ulster
U.S Marines
Utah
Uday
Umm Qast
Vladimir Putin
Veneman
Windsor Hotel
Williams
Wolfowitz Walgreen
Y — Yasir
Yushenkov
Yemen
Z— Zavos
Panos
Zoran Djindjic
Zakhov
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