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...Tiger's triumphant return wasn't the only thing that made it a great day for golf. Two legends of the game, Fred Couples and Tom Watson - combined age of 110 - stood atop the field after Round One. Crowd-favorite Phil Mickelson was right there with them. Woods finished at 4-under par, two strokes (or one more eagle) behind the leader...
...crew, boarded Japan's Shonan Maru 2 in the middle of the night, presented the skipper with a $3 million invoice for sinking the Ady Gil, and attempted a citizen's arrest. Bethune was detained by the crew of the Japanese vessel, and according to Paul Watson the President of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society the ship has turned back to Japan. Bethune could be facing trespass charges in Tokyo. "It's one more whaling ship out of the water," said Watson, who is onboard the Steve Irwin. "Our presence has cost them $70 to $80 million dollars." (See more...
...history would suggest that it won't) that's still too long to wait for any decisive action. "Australia should seek an injunction to stop current whaling while the International Court of Justice determines the matter," Bob Brown, the leader of the Australian Greens Party, said in a statement. Watson, who was named by The Guardian in 2008 as one of 50 people that could save the planet, agrees. "It's as if the Australian government has told a bunch of bank robbers, 'Look you can continue robbing banks until November, but afterward you will have to stop,'" he said...
...that have set up shop in the country over the past few years. Thanks to the deep pockets of the Qatari government, Lamb has more space in the college's new building than he knows how to use. "It's an administrator's dream," he says. Or ask Oliver Watson, director of Doha's new Museum of Islamic Art. Unlike most museum heads around the world, Watson hasn't had to ask for a penny to build or run the magnificent I.M. Pei-designed museum on Doha's waterfront. "We haven't felt the financial crisis at all," he says...
...just name it, say, Infinity? Lame, yes. But at least that would eliminate the X's giving folks the giggles. "This is a long-term investment," says Watson. "We're going to come out with a strong advertising campaign in a week, and it will be something we're going to build on. Our job is to make sure that people get what this stands for: more choice, more control than anybody else in the marketplace. So we're going to build on this. And people who aren't there right away, we're going to try to win them...