Nor black, nor white, nor yellow

TIGER WOODS, the golfing champion, doesn't want to be seen as black. If he has to be given any racial label, he said recently, it should probably be “Cablinasian”, for he contains a bit of everything. At present, the Census Bureau has no category for people like Mr Woods. The country's four official racial categories are white, black, Native American, and Asian and Pacific islander. But a bill recently introduced into Congress would require federal agencies to add another category, “multiracial”; and the Office of Management and Budget is considering whether to take administrative action.