Pile of decisions await at SEC meetings - ESPN
28 May 2012, 7:25 am
If only that were the end of the wrangling. Sure, the university presidents, athletic directors and coaches who will gather this week in Destin, Fla., will likely settle the structure of 14-team conference schedules and attempt to reach a consensus on ...

'Golfer-in-chief' Obama nears 100th round of his presidency - Fresno Bee
28 May 2012, 7:04 am
WASHINGTON -- Theodore Roosevelt warned future presidents of the grave risks: "Fatal," he said. Harry Truman shunned it - "a political noose," in the words of one writer. John Kennedy strived to keep it as secret, or almost as secret ...

Letter: President's statement on gay marriage could lead the way - Jupiter Courier
28 May 2012, 1:34 am
How well I remember reading that when a woman came to Sigmund Freud's office and asked for help with her homosexual son, he told her there was no cure for his homosexuality but to just go home and love him. It has been more than 25 years since ...

The imperial ex-presidency - The Boston Globe
27 May 2012, 11:04 pm
If Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, or either of the presidents Bush were running for office today, they’d be inveighing against the government’s wasteful spending on former presidents. But now they are the former presidents, and they can help ...

Authors: When presidents turn to ex-presidents for advice - CBS News
27 May 2012, 10:57 pm
(CBS News) Two books on the presidency depict different aspects of the challenging job of making the right decisions of the time and the impact those decisions will have on a president's legacy. On "Face the Nation," Time Magazine editors Nancy ...

Presidents and Inequality - New York Times
27 May 2012, 10:57 pm
As President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage is met with cynicism in some quarters, “King’s Forgotten Manifesto,” by David W. Blight and Allison Scharfstein (Op-Ed, May 17), highlights the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ...

Could he be one of the few elected presidents to lose his home state? - YAHOO!
27 May 2012, 8:02 am
For a presidential candidate to lose his or her home state is a particular embarrassment. After all, it's not just any state -- it's the one where people presumably know you the best, have taken the best measure of your character and smarts, and have found ...

Norman out as Presidents Cup chief? - FOXSports.com
26 May 2012, 3:34 pm
Sources close to the Presidents Cup have told Golfweek that Couples will return to lead the US team in the biennial matches and Nick Price of Zimbabwe will captain the International team in 2013 at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. The ...

Photo Gallery: Thirteen Presidents Mark Memorial Day - Whitehouse.gov (press release)
24 May 2012, 6:57 pm
Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day -- a time set aside to honor fallen soldiers of the Civil War by decorating their graves with flowers. The first Decoration Day was observed on May 30, 1868, three years after the end of the ...

Even Presidents Struggle To Keep Their Dignity - NPR News
23 May 2012, 5:22 am
An artist painted South African President Jacob Zuma exposed. The president is seeking a court order to have the painting removed from a gallery. At the University of Texas, a commencement poster included a typo. It was missing the letter "L.