Tiger Woods is going to play on the U.S. Ryder Cup team. His sixth Ryder. The first in which he was chosen as a captain's pick. The three other captains picks are Zach Johnson, Stewart Cink and Rickie Fowler.

Mr. Woods had an off year, but he remains the number one ranked golfer in the world, because no one has been able to replace him at the top. See the video.

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Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley, has announced that it 's time for the curtain call. Next year, the act will close and Chicago will have to get along with a Daley. After six terms, a seventh is not to be. Though the mayor was down in the polls, only 37% thought he was doing a good job, that was no political reason for him to quit. He had no political challenger. He was the city boss who managed his rivals so well that none chose to oppose him.

Rumor says that he's stepping down because his wife is ill, and after what will be twenty plus years in one-job, maybe he really does want to move on and try something different.

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John LennonJohn Lennon's killer was again denied parole in New York, yesterday, Tuesday, he has served nearly 30 years for assassinating John Lennon, the ex-Beatle, outside John Lennon's New York City apartment building in December of 1980. See the video.

John Lennon is an international pop music icon. He was assassinated, because, during his life, he was an international pop music icon. His death wasn't a crime of passion, wasn't the result of some accident in the heat of the moment, didn't happened because of some other criminal act, wasn't done for money, for political or for religious reasons, or even for random reckless amusement, was done deliberately, because he was John Lennon.

A completely innocent man is deliberately gunned down and his murderer expects parole? An icon of a generation is cut down and his killer expects to be let out of jail?

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