Classic U.S. Open
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As the 2009 tournament begins this week in New York, VIEW OUR GALLERY of legendary players, unforgettable matches, and famous fans.
Before the U.S. Open moved to Flushing Meadows in 1978, the tournament was held in the West Side Tennis Club in the Forest Hills section of Queens....
My Weekend on Tiger's Trail
Condoleezza Rice is the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and professor of political science at Stanford University. From January 2005 to 2009, she served as the 66th secretary of state of the United States. Before that, she served as assistant to the president for national security affairs (national security advisor) from January 2001 to 2005.
A day after one of the most operatic Masters finales in history, Condoleezza Rice on the weekend's heartbreaks and highlights.
After eight months away from golf due to injury, Tiger Woods played in his first tournament yesterday and brought the course to its knees once again. How will his return impact the sport competitively and financially? And how cute is his new baby?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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