With the Americans having taken down a Sunni security pillar - Saddam - and then getting tied down in Iraq, Riyadh, Cairo and the rest sensed the Iranians were gaining ground and that they were vulnerable.

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Today two of the last remaining Wall Street giants are getting the Gulliver in Lilliput treatment as their stock prices are tied down and speared to death in a classic sell-first-ask-questions-later hellstorm in the equity markets.

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He led the field in driving distance (tied with Dustin Johnson with an average of 311 yards) and in scrambling (getting up and down in two shots from near the green).

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