AUGUSTA, GA. — Fred Couples is 52, and there’s no telling the relative age of his vertebrae. Yet as he walks on the grounds of Augusta National Golf Club , his back loosens up, and the years melt away. As the sun cast his shadow across the 18th green Friday, the applause came as it has for nearly three decades. He played his first Masters in 1983, when Jason Dufner was 6, when Sergio Garcia was 3, long before Rory McIlroy was born. His hair is gray. His game, here, still produces brilliant colors. Read full article > >

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Masters 2012: Fred Couples, Jason Dufner tied for the lead

The Emerson String Quartet is one of the world’s blue-chip chamber groups, so perhaps it wasn’t a surprise that it turned in a superb and often deeply involving performance on Saturday night at the National Museum of Natural History’s Baird Auditorium. What was a little surprising was the relative conservatism of the program — a well-worn path of late works by Mozart and Beethoven — but as it turned out, the conservatism was only skin deep. Read full article > >

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Review of Emerson String Quartet at Natural History Museum

The Emerson String Quartet is one of the world’s blue-chip chamber groups, so perhaps it wasn’t a surprise that it turned in a superb and often deeply involving performance on Saturday night at the National Museum of Natural History’s Baird Auditorium. What was a little surprising was the relative conservatism of the program — a well-worn path of late works by Mozart and Beethoven — but as it turned out, the conservatism was only skin deep. Read full article > >

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Pirates boarded an American yacht off the coast of Oman three days after the boat’s owners split off from the relative safety of a sailing group traversing a dangerous section of the Indian Ocean, according to the group, the Blue Water Rally.

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Hijacked yacht split from group

The family of a man who fought alongside U.S. troops in Vietnam have been told their relative will not be allowed to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Arlington burial refused for U.S. ally

The lack of debate underscores the relative absence of muscular Republican voices on foreign affairs.

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Republican Hopefuls Are Saying Little About Egypt

The UN says thousands of Iraqi Christians are fleeing central provinces for the relative safety of the northern Kurdish region after a deadly church attack.

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Christians ‘fleeing central Iraq’

The Canadian military is investigating fake calls to families of soldiers in Afghanistan saying their relative has died in combat, authorities say.

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Fake troop death calls in Canada

Lisa Murkowski fails the ‘faithful conservative’ test.

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Who’s a real conservative? It’s all relative.