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...MIKE: All the players are very upset by a few tournament directors pushing to have doubles matches shortened with no ad scoring and shorter sets. We met twice with the players in Cincinnati because we all feel that something has to be done. At Cincy, they were selling t-shirts with "Doubles Yes" on the front and "ATP No" on the back. Several coaches, players and agents were also in the room-including famed agent Pat Jensen and Tennis Channel founder and tournament director Steve Bellamy. I won't go into the discussions at this time but look...
...billion world coffee market, but to farmers like Triphine Mukamyasiro, 23, whose family was killed in the genocide, it's huge. She made $30 annually when she started selling coffee in 1993. After joining a PEARL co-op, she began earning some $400 a year, about twice as much as the typical Rwandan takes home. Christian Ruzigama, 41, returned to find his plantation in tatters. Now, with his profits, he has built a house and sends his children to school...
...three months, while eBay's are up 32%?arguably a sign that what Taobao's Erisman sarcastically calls the "shock and awe" marketing campaign is having an effect. Meanwhile, eBay has rolled out its standard support system for big-time sellers in China. Education sessions are available once or twice a month at "eBay University," and what seller Wu Lin, who runs a full-time business selling clothing on the site, calls "excellent customer service" helps maintain customer loyalty. "If I have a question, they answer it," she says. eBay has finally introduced its secure online-payment system?PayPal. Alibaba...
Last week's indictment of former Republican superlobbyist Jack Abramoff by a Fort Lauderdale grand jury could be making at least one member of Congress skittish: Ohio GOP Rep. Bob Ney, who twice put statements in the Congressional Record that favored Abramoff's side of a bitterly disputed deal involving gambling boats that is at the heart of the charges...
...Little General, who used statistics to match batters with pitchers long before such computer analyses became customary; of lung cancer; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The most winning manager never to make it to the World Series, he came agonizingly close three times, with the Philadelphia Phillies and twice with the Los Angeles Angels, only to suffer wrenching season-end losses. "I've been disappointed," he once said, "but I've never disappointed myself...