Top-ranked Marla Runyan, fourth in the event last year, will lead a field that includes No. 3 Milena Glusac, No. 4 Sylvia Mosqueda, No. 5 Jill Gaitenby and No. 8 Magdalena Lewy.
The week after, Armstrong will lead a field of top professional cyclists at the T-Mobile International in San Francisco, a 108-mile race that will be this year's Tour finale.
The movie had already been named the year's outstanding film by the Producers Guild of America, and picked up 12 Oscar nominations last week, to lead a field that includes "True Grit," "The Fighter" and "The Social Network," among others.
Ninety-seven of the top 100 players will lead a field of 156 into what may well be the Battle of Bunker Hell, with 7,514 yards of humps, hollows, bumps, moguls and areas so rough that, as Mickey Powell, a former president of the P.G.A. of America, put it on Wednesday, "There is no pitch out".
The do, at the ZIN Bistro in the Los Angeles suburb of Westlake Village, will take place less than four miles from where Woods will lead a field of 16 elite PGA tour players to compete for the Chevron golf tournament title at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks.Thus, even a year after his minor skirmish with fire hydrant and tree, the infidelities of the past shadow him.
J.H.: Well, for everyone, if you want to lead a field and not follow, you have to be willing to take the risks.
In the Vermont race, yet another Republican, State Treasurer Jim Douglas, led a field of 10 candidates.
His opponent, Ciro Rodriguez, led a field of six Democrats with 19.9percentt.
In the Democratic primary, former Schools Superintendent Joe L. Farmer led a field of four candidates with 34percentt of the vote.
The electoral commission ruled that the book could favor Mr. Putin, who leads a field of 12 candidates.
Among the Democratic hopefuls is Erskine B. Bowles, a former White House chief of staff, who narrowly leads a field of five in a theoretical primary.
