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...summers ago, when my wife Luci and I split a house with others at the Jersey shore, we had taken in a few Trenton Thunder games. A kid named Garcia-something was playing short for the Sox Double-A club that year, and he was worth watching. I was charmed by the lovely riverside ballfield, and the family-friendly feel of the games. There was a big, stuffed, Double-A quality mascot named Boomer and several Double-A quality contests between innings. I could tell a new science was being applied to minor league games; no doubt this was behind...
...given up Falun Gong. They picked apart supposed flaws in the spiritual movement's doctrine and blamed Liu, 31, an elementary school art teacher, for ruining her family. By the time the sessions had ended, Liu "realized I was thinking only of myself." She signed a promise to "split from the evil cult Falun Gong and its heresies." These days, at the party's behest, she leads similar sessions. Speaking in a carefully monitored meeting that includes government officials and her school principal, she says her spirituality has died: "I believe in nothing...
...Deal ends up being simple: AOL TW provides the content, from The Sopranos and Madonna on demand to TIME magazine. And Microsoft provides the transactional software--an AOL link built right into the operating system. The companies work together to steer eyeballs. Then they split the billions of dollars of take...
...anyway [to do TV commentary]. That promise never came through." Becker's explanation: he wanted not just to advise Haas part time but to take charge of all decisions - coaching, marketing, scheduling - since, he reasoned, any failure would be blamed on him anyway. But Haas didn't want to split with IMG, and it's probably just as well: by then Becker's life had frayed at every seam...
...Gong practitioners. They picked apart the spiritual movement's doctrine and blamed Liu, a 31-year-old grammar-school art teacher, for ruining her family. By the time the sessions ended, says Liu, "I realized I was thinking only of myself." She committed apostasy, signing a written pledge to "split from the evil cult Falun Gong and its heresies." These days, the party makes her lead similar sessions herself. Speaking in a carefully monitored meeting that includes two government officials and her school principal, Liu says her spirituality has died: "I believe in nothing...