ABSTRACT

The asterisk has an in-built starring quality, and has figured radiantly in old-time religious literature as well as in the nether regions of obscenity and its conscience-stricken camouflage. In the case of Tiger Woods, the black reigning champion and three-time winner at the Augusta National Golf Club, the various militant Women's Movements have had high hopes of enlisting the man to their own cause. The New York Times has been leading the cry for a boycott on the part of all right-thinking players coming to compete in the upcoming Masters tournament. The editors of the New York Times, having won a historic media victory by ejecting the Washington Post from its editorial share in the Paris Herald-Tribune, found the occasion timely for an act of generosity of its own. A tabulation in USA Today established that the Times had published thirty-three articles–without counting the belated and "revised" columns of Dave and Harvey–on the dispute since July.