IF the galleries at last week’s British Open learned anything, it was: Don’t mess with Supermex, otherwise known as Lee Trevino.
Sport: Lee Trevino: Cantinflas of the Country Clubs
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Baby Fae Stuns the World
A baboon-heart transplant inspires both awe and anger Except for the gauze-covered wound stretching almost the length of her torso, the tiny, dark-haired baby girl might have been just any infant.
Weaker but Not Lost: The Case Against Strauss-Kahn
In the hours before Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrived in court on Friday morning, rumors flew that prosecutors might drop the case against the former director of the International Monetary Fund. As first reported in the New York Times, prosecutors disclosed to Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers on June 30 that the woman accusing him of trying to rape her in his hotel suite had lied to investigators on a number of occasions and that her credibility had come into question.
Strauss-Kahn’s Accuser Faces Questions About Her Story
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Le Monde.
Silicon Savanna: Mobile Phones Transform Africa
The buzz at Pivot25, a conference for mobile-phone software developers and investors held this June, is all about the future of money. Ben Lyon, the 24-year-old business-development VP of Kopo Kopo, wants $250,000 to produce his app for shops to process payments made by text message.
Want to Make More Than a Banker? Become A Farmer!
If you want to become rich, Jim Rogers, investment whiz, best-selling author and one of Wall Street’s towering personalities, has this advice: Become a farmer. Food prices have been high recently.
The Punisher
Rodrigo Duterte, the mayor of Davao City, is sitting in his favorite bar, After Dark, a glass of brandy in front of him, a .38 pistol tucked in his waistband. He’s wearing jeans and a short-sleeved shirt loudly adorned with wine bottles and bunches of red and green grapes — the same outfit he wore to work
Strauss-Kahn Case: France’s Socialist Party In Upheaval (Again) With New Doubts About Accuser
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Le Nouvel Observateur.
Gibbs: The Joy of Summer Camp
The travel experts predict that this will be a staycation summer, with gas prices over $4 and the economy melting like an Eskimo pie.
Can Europe Tempt Ukraine Back to Democracy?
Seven years after she rallied crowds in Kiev during Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko appeared in court Wednesday on charges of abuse of power.