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A blissful newlywed, Greg Norman believes he’s finally got the proper perspective on life. His golf game looks pretty excellent, too. Cheered on by his wife of a month, former tennis star Chris Evert, the 53-year-ancient Norman plugged away for an even-par 70 in the opening round of the British Open, leaving him just one stroke off the lead Thursday.

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Fifty years from now, when TV critics of the future are sitting around, pondering the day when basic cable finally grew up and started to be taken seriously by Emmy voters, they will point to Thursday. It was graduation day, of sorts, for basic cable as the primetime Emmy nominations were announced. Mad Men, AMC’s hip and wonderfully layered drama about of group of slick ad men in the 1960s, nabbed a whopping 16 nominations, including one for Best Drama and a Best Actor nod for the superb Jon Hamm. That number is third only to John Adams, the compelling HBO miniseries which received 23 nominations and The Office, the loopy NBC comedy which garnered an impressive 17 nominations. Men led all dramas with 16 nominations.

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Shoddy electrical work by private contractors on U.S. military bases in Iraq is widespread and perilous, causing more deaths and injuries from fires and shocks than the Pentagon has acknowledged, according to internal Army documents.

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