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...Adding an Asian player to the ranks can help. Four Premiership teams now have Chinese players on their books, and since welcoming South Korea's Park Ji Sung into their line-up in 2005, Manchester United have become big in Seoul. Three-quarters of South Korea's football fans see the club as their favorite European side, according to Birkbeck, and more than 650,000 South Koreans have signed up for a club-branded credit or debit card since their launch a year ago. By launching local-language websites, teams can tailor marketing to fit an individual country, drumming...
...well-worn jazz riff: superb player, been around forever but known mostly to musicians and insiders. Andrew Hill almost fit the bill. Over his 50-year career, he was lauded as a groundbreaking pianist and composer. And yet he was often overlooked by mainstream audiences, which focused on contemporaries like Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins. But Hill refused to fade. His 2006 album, Time Lines, earned him album-of-the-year honors from Down Beat magazine. Hill, who performed just three weeks before his death...
...what you can do. Just make sure you’re pleased with it as a individual and then you know some people gonna like it some people ain’t, that’s just part of the game. No matter you a rapper, actor, ball player, figure skater, some people gonna like you some people ain’t, you just hope that the majority is more like than dislike...
...It’s hard not to have fun,” Cohen said. “It’s hard not to be pumped up when you’re playing at a place like this.”FINAL TICKSNot only did nine different players score goals for Harvard in the win, but only one of those goals carried an assist with it. The 11 unassisted scores is a season high.... Co-captain John Henry Flood continued his dominance at the faceoff X, winning 19-of-24 tries against Holy Cross. He also picked up a team...
...Sunday's election may be a grim portent for the prospects of good governance in the region: At 132 million people, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, and its oil wealth and military power make it, together with South Africa, the continent's major political player. But since independence, Nigeria has set an example for corruption unrivaled in Africa. The country's own anti-corruption watchdog estimates that successive Nigerian rulers have stolen a total of $400 billion since independence - the equivalent of the total economic aid sent by the international community to the entire African continent...