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DIED. WELLINGTON MARA, 89, legendary longtime owner of the New York Giants and Hall of Fame patriarch of the National Football League; in Rye, N.Y. By agreeing to a key deal in 1961 allowing all teams, many in considerably smaller markets, to split TV profits, Mara--who joined the Giants as a water boy at age 9 when his father bought the team for $500--ensured the competition, stability and survival of the now formidable NFL. Reserved but paternal, he paid former Giants players' medical bills, employed veterans as scouts and over 80 years attended most practices and almost every...
...doorstep: in the Tijuana--San Diego corridor, police are dealing with a gang known as Narco-Juniors, a group of affluent juvenile delinquents recruited as hit men in the 1990s by the Tijuana drug cartel. Authorities in the Juarez--El Paso corridor, meanwhile, report a growing presence of the Mara Salvatrucha, a machete-wielding gang that has terrified Central America in recent years. The threat from groups like the Zetas may persist for years. "This is like any instance of monopoly busting," says Jorge Chabat, a professor of international relations at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching in Mexico...
...what if kids grow so accustomed to these interventions that they miss out on lessons in self-reliance? Mara Sapon-Shevin, an education professor at Syracuse University, has had college students tell her they were late for class because their mothers didn't call to wake them up that morning. She has had students call their parents from the classroom on a cell phone to complain about a low grade and then pass the phone over to her, in the middle of class, because the parent wanted to intervene. And she has had parents say they are paying...
DIED. ACHILLE MARAMOTTI, 78, postwar Italian fashion designer who in 1951 brought women, many of whom had been reliant on dressmakers, ready-made but chic styles with his Max Mara company, which he built into a business with estimated annual sales of $1 billion; in Albinea, Italy...
...broadcasting to finding a team for Los Angeles. It's a group that includes NFL rebel Al Davis of the Oakland Raiders, financial ciphers like Malcolm Glazer of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, nouveau riche types like Daniel Snyder (Redskins) and old-school owners such as the Rooney (Steelers) and Mara (Giants) families...