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Article: Burk Raises Rhetoric on Augusta National
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- March 27, 2003
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Dateline: NEW YORK
Sorry, Martha Burk, you just lost me.
You say it is "appalling" that women soldiers can lay down their lives
for democratic values but are shut out of Augusta National Golf Club.
I say the women fighting in Iraq are worried a lot more about sandstorms
than sand traps.
You say it is an "insult" to the 250,000 women serving in the U.S.
military that CBS is broadcasting the Masters from a club that discriminates.
I say that CBS isn't an evil conspirator against women by showing
the tournament and that a lot of us relish a reprieve from the war
by watching Tiger Woods among the azaleas and dogwoods for a few days.
You say, as ...