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...This is almost painfully clear in Tenet's new book, At the Center of the Storm, his memoir about his seven years as CIA boss currently excerpted on Time.com and in the upcoming issue of TIME magazine. The book - and Tenet's publicity tour interviews, including one with Time.com - has once again reignited all the old fights between Bush Administration neoconservatives and Republican internationalists - starting with 9/11 and continuing right through to the war in Iraq...
...aimed at South Korea. The London team is also playing benefactor. Apart from hosting the Chinese Olympic football team in London in February, the club sponsors the Asian Football Confederation's Vision Asia project to develop grassroots leagues across China. Next summer, Chelsea will embark on its first-ever tour of China. Those preseason tours can be pure gold, giving sponsors the chance to exploit target markets. When Manchester United goes to Malaysia, Korea, Japan and China this summer, shirt sponsor AIG will be with the team every minute. That will go some way to repaying the $28 million...
...thinks, the Premier League has "a very different model." Closer to home, fans at Old Trafford stadium are grappling with marketing of a different kind. Even when there's no game on, there are plenty of ways to part a fan from his cash. You can join a tour party - as 200,000 fans do each year, paying $20 for the privilege. You can hit the Manchester United megastore, and look at anything from jewelry to lacy garters. It's not what the cloth-cap and meat-pie fans of yore would have bought. But then, the English Premier League...
...match this brawn and beauty, the LPGA tour is sharpening its own game, which in 2005 generated about $67 million in revenue. Commissioner Carolyn Bivens--the first woman to hold the job--hasn't been afraid to take some divots out of the LPGA's old business plan. She's reorganized the tournaments, the staff, even the television production. The goal: close the purse and popularity gap with the men's tour (PGA), as women have done in professional tennis...
...kids on the tour, thoughts of retirement are worth a giggle. Pressel had other issues. The week after her big victory, she played poorly--Lincicome won the Ginn Open. But one bad week isn't going to set her back. "That girl is tougher than a nickel steak," says golf pro McNamara. And so is Boss Bivens. They are ready to tee up a new game...