Outrage Over Bank's Golf Tourney Is Misplaced

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 28, 2009 3:27 PM CST

(Newser) – “Golf, with its traditional fat-cat image, is an easy target for abuse, some of it deserved,” John Paul Newport writes in the Wall Street Journal. But the recent hubbub over Northern Trust’s sponsorship of a PGA tourney—that bank received $1.6... Read full story »

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