Bae, a rookie on the 2012 PGA Tour who clinched last year’s Japan Golf Tour order of merit title, fired a five-under-par 67 on the tricky South Course, one of two layouts hosting this week’s event.In light breezes and dazzling sunshine at Torrey Pines, Bae posted a 12-under total of 132 to finish two ahead of American Hunter Mahan, who carded a 65 on the easier North Course.Australia’s Robert Allenby was a further stroke back at nine under after returning a 67 on the South course.Three-times champion Mickelson ended a disappointing week prematurely, however, as his five-birdie 68 on the North layout was not good enough to help him make the cut.The American left-hander had faced an uphill task coming into Friday’s second round after opening with a woeful 77 on Thursday.I don’t feel like there’s any one area that I feel bad about my game, Mickelson told reporters after finishing at one-over 145.It’s just that I’m not bringing it from the practice session on to the golf course yet. I’m not sure why that is, but the good news is my practice sessions have been great in every area.Bae, who booked his place on the 2012 PGA Tour via qualifying school in December, charged up the leaderboard with birdies at the fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth.Though he bogeyed the 12th and the 17th, he birdied both par-fives on the back nine – the 13th and the last – to stay at the top of the leaderboard. The South course is very tough, and it’s not easy for me but today was pretty good, said the 25-year-old Bae. I made a lot of birdies today and just two bogeys so I’m happy right now. I hit a pretty good driver and pretty good iron shots. Sometimes I missed a few putts, short putts, but my putter has mainly been pretty good so I have confidence. Asked what his strategy would be for the final two rounds to be played solely on the South Course, Bae replied: There are many good players here and I will try to be aggressive tomorrow and Sunday. The cut was projected to fall at two-under 142.
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Former head coach Bill Parcells, a Pro Football Hall of Fame finalist for the Class of 2012, won a Super Bowl with the Giants in 1991 with Coughlin and Belichick on his staff as assistants.They do have an awful lot in common, Parcells said in an interview this week with ESPN radio. Both of them were straight football guys, intense competitors, very thorough. Quite intense in their preparation. And certainly both of them would get the information to the players very, very well.Coughlin was a receivers coach under Parcells for three seasons, concluding with the Giants’ Super Bowl victory over the Buffalo Bills, coinciding with Belichick’s 12-year run as a defensive assistant with the team.Parcells, who coached the Giants to two Super Bowl titles and also took the Patriots to a Super Bowl, all with Belichick on board as defensive coordinator, said both men had been well prepared for football success and were devoted to the game.Bill Belichick was the son of a coach, said Parcells, referring to Steve Belichick, a longtime assistant coach at the U.S. Naval Academy. He came up in football all his life.Belichick took his first National Football League job as a 23 year old after majoring in economics at Wesleyan.Tom kind of took the same route that I did as a coach starting in a very, very small Division Three school (Rochesball Institute of Technology). He was mowing the grass, lining the fields and doing all the tasks that a coach in that situation has to do. People that do that learn the ropes, said Parcells.I think Bill was taught by his dad on what was necessary, and Tom by his experience … I did the same things at Hastings College in Nebraska.As Coughlin and Belichick put in their game plans before heading to Indianapolis for the February 5 Super Bowl, Parcells was asked if there was anything special about the way he prepared his teams for the big game.I tried to always have something a little extra whether it be a fake punt or field goal, said Parcells. I wanted the players to get the sense that we were going to try and do every single thing that we could do to win the game and if we needed a momentum boost we would try to be prepared to do it.
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Groupon, which runs the world’s largest online coupon website, had accused Nikki Dorough, Brian Hanna and Michael Nolan of taking confidential trade secrets in moving to the world’s largest Internet search company. Google launched its own daily deals business early last year.The workers maintained that Groupon, by filing its complaint on October 21, was trying to illegally stifle competition and bully workers, as it prepared to cash in through its upcoming, eagerly awaited initial public offering.In its stop-at-nothing strategy to take itself public and further enrich its founders, Groupon has crossed the line, the workers said. The message is clear: don’t leave Groupon and if you do, don’t attempt to use any of the skills and experience you may have developed while working for us.The workers said they are in their mid-20s, and decided independently of each other to join Google in the fall. Their countersuit was filed on Wednesday in the Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois, where Groupon had originally sued.Julie Mossler, a Groupon spokeswoman, said: We believe these counterclaims have no merit and we remain confident of our case.Groupon went public in the first week of November, in an offering that valued the Chicago-based company at $12. billion.It was the largest IPO for a U.S. Internet company since Google went public in 2004, and followed Groupon’s having in 2010 spurned a roughly $6 billion takeover by that company.According to Groupon, the workers violated a clause in their employment agreements that barred them from working for a direct competitor for two years after leaving.The workers believe that clause is unenforceable and unnecessary, as none had access to confidential, sensitive or proprietary information. They also contended that Groupon is using them as a prop, having served a subpoena to Google not simply for information to help its case but also to obtain intelligence on a burgeoning competitor in an effort to preserve market share. These are young people who are industrious, entrepreneurial and trying to earn a living, and Groupon is trying to prevent them from doing that, Steven Molo, a lawyer for the workers, said in a phone interview. The law does not allow it. Dorough, Hanna and Nolan seek compensatory damages for interference with their current work, plus punitive damages. They also want their non-compete clauses to be voided. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Mountain View, California-based company is not a defendant in the countersuit. Shares of Groupon closed Friday up 2. percent, or 51 cents, at $20. 4 on the Nasdaq. The company went public at $20 per share. The case is Groupon Inc v. Hanna et al, Cook County Circuit Court, No. 11CH36731.
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Democratic members of the House of Representatives gave him a standing ovation and a compact disc in which they all sang I’m So In Love With You, the first line of Al Green’s hit song Let’s Stay Together.Just three months ago some lawmakers talked privately of keeping their distance from Obama in 2012 because they feared voters’ unhappiness with his economic stewardship would hurt their election campaigns.Relations between Obama and congressional Democrats deteriorated after Republicans won the House in 2010. Democrats complained Obama was too willing to compromise at the expense of Democratic principles.But ties have improved as Obama has become more combative toward Republicans over taxes and jobs and sought to draw a sharp contrast with Republican presidential hopefuls vying to face him in the November 6 election.Wrapping up a cross-country tour to promote a populist agenda laid out in this week’s State of the Union address, Obama hammered home a re-election campaign appeal for greater economic fairness and called on fellow Democrats to close ranks with him.Obama used his speech to the Democratic lawmakers’ retreat in Maryland to turn up the heat on Republicans, who have accused him of pursuing class warfare and assailed his State of the Union proposals, including higher taxes on wealthier Americans.Where they obstruct, where they’re unwilling to act, where they’re more interested in party than they are in country … then we’ve got to call them out on it, Obama said to loud applause. We’ve got to push them. We can’t wait. We can’t be held back.’RISE OR FALL TOGETHER’Obama called on congressional Democrats to close ranks with him as he seeks to persuade voters to give him a second term despite a fragile economy and high unemployment. Obama is campaigning against a do-nothing Congress, highlighting the partisan gridlock that has paralyzed decision-making on job creation and tackling record deficits. Congress is White House code for Republicans, but some Democratic lawmakers worry that distinction may be lost on voters, who already have a low opinion of the polarized legislature. We are going to rise or fall together, Representative Henry Waxman said of the Democrats’ bid to retain the Senate, keep the presidency and take back the House. Waxman’s comments were echoed by other lawmakers at the retreat who signaled that the tensions that bedeviled relations with the White House in 2011 were in the past. There is always some tension between the legislative and executive branches of government, said Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House. But we are a team, and we want to head in the same direction. While Congress’s approval ratings are at record lows, Obama’s have edged up to nearly 50 percent. The president is running a lot stronger than we are, said Representative Jim Moran. His train is moving in the right direction. We ought to get on, said Moran, who just months ago questioned how vigorously Democrats would campaign for Obama.Jennifer Duffy of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report said the Democrats’ warmer embrace of Obama underscored that you always reach a point in an election cycle, and I think we are now there, where you realize it’s hard not to run with the president, it’s hard to walk away from the head of the ticket.The retreat in the waterfront town of Cambridge featured a number of private sessions to ready Democrats for the campaign, including one entitled: How to run when the president is running against Congress.Obama first tested his anti-Congress strategy late last year, upsetting Democrats over what they saw as his failure to differentiate between Democrats and Republicans.The president upset a lot of us with the attacks, said a top Democratic aide. It showed White House arrogance. They didn’t even bother to consult with us on it.Obama has since soothed hard feelings by being more discriminate in his attacks, although he still frequently refers to his willingness to act when Congress will not.Most Democratic lawmakers figure Obama will be more of a help than a hindrance to their own re-elections, particularly in raising money and rallying the party’s liberal base, lawmakers and analysts say.Yet many, particularly those in conservative states, are likely to run away from his 2010 overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, which drew Republican fire and a public backlash.Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at the retreat on Friday, predicted Democrats would win the House and jokingly acknowledged that the White House could help or hurt members, depending on the politics of their respective districts.I’m prepared to row or ski anywhere and campaign for you. (But) if it helps to be against you, I’ll be against you, Biden quipped.Opinion polls show that voters have a slightly higher opinion of Democrats in Congress than their Republican counterparts, but pollsters say Democrats will struggle to pick up the 25 House seats they need to regain control of the 435-seat chamber.
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Lawmakers want to strengthen the economic chokehold on Iran to discourage Tehran from seeking to build a nuclear bomb. The panel’s announcement gave no details of the upcoming legislation, saying these would be released next week.
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After weeks of muddling through round after round of inconclusive talks, the negotiations appear to be in their final phase with both sides hoping to secure a preliminary deal before Monday’s summit of euro zone leaders.The debt swap, in which private creditors are to take a 50 percent cut in the nominal value of their Greek bond holdings in exchange for cash and new bonds, is a pre-requisite for the country to secure a 130-billion-euro rescue package.Prime Minister Lucas Papademos told Reuters in an interview he expects the debt talks to be concluded within days.We made significant progress over the last few weeks and in the last few days in particular. We are trying to conclude the discussions as quickly as possible. I am quite optimistic an agreement will be reached in the coming days, he said.Still, concern has grown that the deal may not do enough to get the country’s debt reduction plan back on track, and that Greece’s European partners will be forced to stump up funds to cover the shortfall.Athens also faces problematic talks with the troika of foreign lenders – the European Commission, IMF and European Central Bank – who have warned it needs to do more to drive through painful reforms before they dole out any more money.There is a lot of work to be done because at the same time we have the negotiations for the new (bailout) program, a Greek finance ministry official said.It’s all very dense, difficult and crucial. There is optimism because the country needs to survive and we need to protect its citizens because they have suffered a lot.Athens and its creditors have broadly agreed that new bonds under the swap would probably have a 30-year maturity and a progressive interest rate. The deal is aimed at chopping 100 billion euros off Greece’s crushing 350-billion-euro debt load. But they have wrangled for weeks over the interest rate Greece must pay on the new bonds and pressure has grown in recent days on the European Central Bank and other public creditors to accept a cut in the value of their Greek bond holdings like the private sector creditors. A debt deal must be sealed in about three weeks at the latest as Greece has to repay 14. billion euros of debt on March 20. Otherwise Greece will sink into an uncontrolled default that might spread turmoil across the euro zone. Papademos promised on Friday this would not happen. Greece will not default, he said. Senior euro zone officials have also expressed optimism on the debt deal, though previous predictions of an imminent agreement have failed to become reality. Greece is in its fifth year of recession, with hopes of a quick exit of the crisis receding rapidly due to squabbling politicians, rising social anger and an inability to get its debt load under control.
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The focus of the tremor was 20 km (12 miles) below the surface of the earth, in Yamanashi prefecture, west of Tokyo, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.The quake, at 7:43 a.m., was also felt in the capital.Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world’s most seismically active areas. The country accounts for about 20 percent of the world’s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.On March 11, 2011, the northeast coast was struck by a magnitude 9 earthquake, the strongest quake in Japan on record, and a massive tsunami, which triggered the world’s worst nuclear crisis in 25 years since Chernobyl. The disaster left up to 23,000 dead or missing.
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The White House contenders courted Florida’s sizable Hispanic vote, many of them Cubans, with appearances on Friday at the Hispanic Leadership Network, where Romney received an unusually warm reception and the reaction to Gingrich was more sedate.Bouncing back after losing the South Carolina primary to Gingrich on Saturday, Romney had an 8-percentage point lead over him in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday. A Quinnipiac University poll gave him a 9-percentage point edge.The Reuters/Ipsos online poll gave Romney 41 percent and Gingrich 33 percent ahead of Saturday’s contest.That margin is similar to three polls released on Thursday that all showed Romney taking control of the battle in Florida, where the former Massachusetts governor enjoys a financial and organizational advantage over Gingrich.Romney battered the former House of Representatives speaker in two debates this week, wounding him in the same format that has helped fuel Gingrich’s campaign.With the debates now over, Gingrich will need some other way to reverse the tide that appears to be going against him, Quinnipiac University pollster Peter Brown said.Tuesday’s Florida primary is the fourth contest in the state-by-state battle for the Republican nomination to challenge President Barack Obama, a Democrat, in the November 6 U.S. election. Romney won in New Hampshire and former Senator Rick Santorum won the first contest in Iowa.Romney repeatedly attacked Gingrich at Thursday’s debate in Florida, scoring points on immigration, candidates’ finances and even lunar exploration.That was Romney on Red Bull, Republican strategist Ron Bonjean said. You could tell Newt was tired, he’s carrying a heavy load. He was counting on pure momentum to carry him through Florida, and that momentum has stopped. At a campaign event in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Romney reminded the crowd of his debate performance. How about that debate last night? Wasn’t that fun? Romney asked. I’ve had the fun of two debates where I had to stand up and battle, and battling was fun. ‘CUBA WILL BE FREE’3An energized Romney, whom Gingrich has described as the most anti-immigrant candidate in the Republican race, won several standing ovations from the Hispanic crowd in Miami earlier on Friday. There is a time coming soon when Cuba will be free, Romney told them, adding America can’t sit back in dealing with the island nation off the coast of Florida. Gingrich received a much quieter response, once again mocking Romney’s call for self-deportation of illegal immigrants as a fantasy. It’s not a solution.Gingrich said the concept might work for younger illegal immigrants who had been in the United States a short time, but not for older immigrants with deep family ties. They should be allowed to apply for citizenship through local councils similar to draft boards, he said.A Florida win for Romney would put him in a strong position to capture the nomination as the primary map tilts in his favor in February with contests in seven states where he has the potential for strong showings.Next up on February 4 is Nevada, where Romney won with 51 percent of the vote during his failed 2008 presidential bid. On February 7 Minnesota and Colorado hold caucuses and Missouri holds a primary. Gingrich did not make the ballot in Missouri.Four of the states with February contests – Nevada, Maine, Colorado and Minnesota – use caucus systems, which often require greater organization to rally voter turnout. That could help Romney take advantage of his superior financial and staff resources.On February 28, Michigan and Arizona hold primaries. Romney was raised in Michigan, where his father was a governor and car executive.A new Gingrich television ad in Florida asked: What kind of man would mislead, distort and deceive just to win an election?This man would be Mitt Romney, the ad’s narrator said.Romney’s camp said the sharp tone from Gingrich was a sign he was desperate to distract from his own record as House speaker, where he faced an ethics probe, and as a consultant with mortgage giant Freddie Mac.It is laughable to see lectures on honesty coming from a paid influence peddler who suffered an unprecedented ethics reprimand, was forced to pay a $300,000 penalty, and resigned in disgrace at the hands of his own party, Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said.
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Tuck had two of New York’s five sacks against Brady in the title game four years ago when the Giants spoiled New England’s bid at becoming the first National Football League (NFL) team to complete a season with a 19-0 record.You can look at (that game) and say that was pretty much the reason why we won it, because we kind of kept him off rhythm, Tuck told reporters on Friday.Brady was 29-of-48 for 266 yards with one touchdown pass in the Super Bowl defeat after completing a record 50 scoring throws during the regular season.He is the main reason why they’re successful, him and (coach Bill) Belichick, those minds together, said Tuck, New York’s defensive captain.The way to kill a snake is take off his head. And the way to kill an offense as potent as that one is make sure you take care of Brady.Tuck is supremely confident in New York’s pass rush, which also features Osi Umenyiora and second-year sensation Jason Pierre-Paul, but he concedes that containing Brady presents a supreme challenge.Brady makes it difficult to get to him. We feel we can play with just about any line in this country given the time. But he does a great job of getting the ball out of his hand, Tuck said about the two-time Super Bowl most valuable player.Tuck said other elements weigh in, such as the defensive backs’ ability to slow down New England receivers, and disguised rushes used by the New York defense.Like re-route their receivers, try to confuse him (Brady) a little bit, that goes back to that game of chess, said Tuck. If we’re able to do that it gives our rush a little more time to get after him. All that said, Tuck goes into the game full of respect for Brady, a three-time Super Bowl champions and seven-time Pro Bowl selection. Brady is a tough guy. I said after the Super Bowl that he’s the first quarterback I truly respected as far as toughness. We hit him a lot in that football game but he stayed in there, said Tuck. No one had hit him like that all year. I think it was a surprise to him. He was frustrated at his O-line, but I don’t think it rattled him. The guy’s a pretty good football player.
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