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...odds had finally shifted in Boston's favor, thanks had to go in part to John Henry, the team's principal owner. Henry, a lifelong St. Louis fan, grew up on an Arkansas farm listening to Cardinals radio broadcasts. He developed a gift for numbers, computing batting averages in his head and eventually making millions trading commodities. He and his partners bought the Sox in 2001 for an estimated $660 million. What Boston fans deemed a curse was, to him, a statistical anomaly at best. Or lousy management. One explanation for Boston's years of failure is that the team...
DIED. JOHN PEEL, 65, BBC radio host whose live broadcasts were a showcase for new musicians; of an apparent heart attack; in Cuzco, Peru. Since 1967, Peel Sessions has brought hundreds of rock bands, including Nirvana and the Smashing Pumpkins, into its studio to perform, often before a group had a recording contract. The sessions, in wide circulation both as bootleg and commercial recordings, have become invaluable time capsules of rock history...
...reminding voters of 9/11? Or would it help Kerry by reminding voters that bin Laden remained at large? Both candidates immediately delivered statements saying that Americans were in agreement in their opposition to the terrorists. But the tape quickly became a weapon in their battle. On a Wisconsin radio station Kerry, repeating a longtime criticism, said that Bush "didn't choose to use American forces to hunt down Osama bin Laden" at Tora Bora in 2001. Bush shot back at a rally in Ohio that Kerry's criticisms were "especially shameful in light of the new tape from America...
HOWARD STERN, radio shock jock, in a surprise call-in to a radio show at which Michael Powell, the Federal Communications Commission chief, was a guest. Powell, and later his father Colin, denied Stern's claim...
...betting that companies like sports-apparel giant Nike will incorporate its service into their business. Already, every couple of hours Nike sends a batch of orders from Nike.com to a UPS facility in Kentucky. Within minutes a UPS employee using a state-of-the-art radio-frequency bar-code reader, grabs the item--usually made in Asia and delivered directly to UPS--off the shelf. The product, often a pair of Nike's famous shoes, is then quality checked by another UPS employee, carefully packed and sent out the door within 24 hours. "While Nike is researching how to make...