Augusta National hosts the Masters golf tournament and Johnson runs the club and the tournament with an iron fist.

When the National Council of Women's Organizations sent a letter to Johnson in June to urge him to admit women to the club, Johnson provoked a storm by publicly declaring that he would not be bullied into admitting women. He then released the sponsors for the television broadcast of the 2003 event, in order to spare them from being pressured on the issue, thereby giving up $3 million in advertising revenue.

A Club spokesman said the surgery involved a coronary artery bypass, aortic aneurysm repair and aortic valve replacement.

"We're surprised that the doctors found he had a heart," said a spokeswoman for the Council.

Augusta National is a private club, and legally can be a men-only institution. No one was paying any attention to the Council's position until Hootie issued a lengthy and emotional response. But while the club is private, the Masters tournament is the most watched sporting event of the

Proving yet again his audacity, former skirt-chasing President, Bill Clinton, is seeking young interns to work under, over or alongside him at his private foundation, according to a classified ad recently placed in New York University's student newspaper.

Augusta National's biggest PR problem may be that its Chairman is named Hootie.

the American public has quickly forgotten YUGOSLAVIA, and our last satanic villain/target, the ruthlss dictator SLOBO MILOSOVIC. Some DICTATOR Slobo proved to be! Real dictators, like HITLER or STALIN or even SUDDAM HUSSIEN, brook no OPPOSITION at all. One careless comment and you may well be hauled off to slave labor camps or shoved up against a bullet-riddled wall. As for elections . . . HAH! Not so Slobo. He holds an election, loses that contest, and steps down after a few days of nonviolent popular demonstrations. He then allows himself to be captured and packed off to a war crimes docket. Surely dictators should be made of sterner stuff! One one have thought that after his fall there'd be joyous scenes as thousands of political prisoners were released. There weren't--because SLOBO had been too lazy to take any! Of course, you wouldn't expect the U.S. media to tell us this, since in wartime the truth is the first casualty.

DUBAYU, our first unelected President since Hayes, has let the cat out of the bag. Ashcroft, Cheney, and the like have big plans for America. Read George Orwell for details. A full-blown POLICE STATE, with secret military tribunals dispatching supposed "terrorists"--or their sympathizers, armed with powers of torture, unlimited rights to tap phones, email, and detain suspects without trial, national identity cards, etc., etc. History shows that such powers are always eventually used against domestic dissenters and other troublemakers, and we see no reason to doubt that they will be again. Anti-terrorist powers will prove especially useful to big-city cops as they even the score with the uppity urban poor. Meanwhile, the American MEDIA, having shed of any pretense of objectivity, serves as a CHEERLEADER for the new order and its corporate bosses.

Not very. As Immanuel Wallerstein has so brilliantly shown, the West (the Core) began to dominate the remainder of the world (the Periphery) nearly five centuries ago. The Periphery provided raw materials and labor (slaves, later immigrants) for the benefit of the Core. Wealth flowed toward the center. Western military might reinforced western rule. In the 18th century this was called MERCANTILISM, in the 19th century IMPERIALISM, and in the 20th global CAPITALISM. The latest twist is to shift manufacturing

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