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...Soccer today is not just about tactics and technical abilities," Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani told the daily Corriere Della Sera. "It's about full stadiums and sponsors. Our squad is ultra-competitive and it will remain this way, but Beckham is something different and intriguing...
...benefit from a buffer against recession. Leagues are in the midst of long-term television-rights deals whose terms are already locked in (baseball, for example, has a contract with Fox, TBS and ESPN that expires in 2013). And there are some positive economic indicators. New York Mets vice president David Howard says the 49 luxury boxes for the team's new stadium, which are priced between $250,000 and $500,000, have already sold out. That's an impressive achievement, given the bad economy and the team's second straight horrific collapse down the stretch. The New York Yankees...
...Indonesia, by contrast, Suharto signed an IMF agreement that he had no intention of carrying out. Four months later he was driven from office, replaced by B.J. Habibie, his hyperactive Vice President, a man better known for his expensive and far-fetched plans to build an aircraft industry than for any clear sense of how to develop Indonesia's economy. Indonesia has struggled to keep its head above water ever since...
Nick Panza, the airline's vice president for the Americas, was aware of the couple's, er, "unusual" journey and apologized. He said the plane had been canceled due to mechanical difficulties and that most of the other passengers had been booked on the flight to L.A. then on to Tahiti, arriving between seven and 18 hours later than scheduled. (I guess that's the best you can hope for with the airline industry these days.) "Unfortunately, Jeninne and Keirn, who did not come to the Air Tahiti Nui counter at JFK, spoke with AA directly...
...keep their supply lines running through Pakistan, but are preparing alternate routes if Islamabad orders them shut down. "We're working our way through to understand rail, pipelines, customs, what it would take, are they there in a sufficient scale to allowus to do this?" Marine General James Cartwright, vice-chairman of the JointChiefs told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Sept. 23. Under the circumstances, say U.S. officials, it makes little sense to give up the option of cross-border operations - the Pakistanis have not yet demonstrated that they can fight this on their...