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Today it's not at all about comparing ourselves to the other leagues. It's trying to capture a larger piece of an ever-growing soccer market in this country. There's no shortage of soccer fans in America. We need fans that watch the English Premier League or follow teams from Mexico and Argentina to be fans of their local MLS club too. (Listen to Dick Vitale Name His Top 10 NCAA Tournament Moments...
...plus a native braininess and a healthy dose of opportunism - had earned her a regular seat at soirées in the Washington-New York City-Los Angeles triad, as well as a modest media profile. She was once referred to as "the most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus." (Watch an interview with Huffington...
...derivative portfolios, building up potential liabilities many times its capacity to pay out if the portfolios defaulted. Few financial experts ever imagined the scope of the impending defaults. Neither did regulators. AIG's uncollateralized insurance combine was regulated by Washington's Office of Thrift Supervision, whose task is to watch over savings-and-loan companies, not global insurers. And it wasn't watching...
...festered for decades, and the proliferation of junta-controlled mines and concessions in the minority regions only exacerbates the tensions. Hundreds of thousands of ethnic villagers have been forced to relocate or have been conscripted into chain gangs, according to human-rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Even when operations begin, paid jobs land disproportionately in the hands of ethnic Burmese migrants, not those of local minorities. A new report by the Geneva-based International Displacement Monitoring Center estimates that in eastern Burma alone nearly half a million minority people have been displaced...
...first year in office, and already some in the environmental community are worried that their agenda will be sacrificed. Global-warming issues face particularly tough obstacles, especially at a time when the prophets of other crises proclaim more-imminent doomsdays. Obama, says Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, "is taking on an awful lot of sacred cows all at once, and these are cows that have sharp teeth and are going to bite back." (What exactly is a green-collar...