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...Adam Silver has helped direct the NBA's explosive growth overseas. NBA commissioner David Stern tapped the litigator and lifelong Knicks fan as a special assistant a decade ago and in 1997 named him president of NBA Entertainment. Stern eventually moved all the league's off-court businesses to Silver's unit, which now controls the league's worldwide marketing, TV and Internet operations. Since Silver became the business czar in 2000, worldwide merchandising sales have grown 67%. "Adam has overcome his status as a lawyer to understand branding," says Stern. "He's the doer...
Celebrated in mythology, literature and art, the pomegranate has a noble history. Along with the citrus and the peach, it's one of the three blessed fruits in Buddhism. Some have suggested that it was a pomegranate, not an apple, that led to the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. And in Greek mythology, Persephone was sentenced to six months a year in the underworld for eating just six pomegranate seeds...
...Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., has not confirmed an appearance on “Hardball” or at Kirkland, but still wants to participate in both events, according to the Lieberman campaign’s deputy press secretary, Adam R. Kovacevich...
...young history student who had driven three hours to the site placed bits of rubble in a small plastic bag. "I will put it in my home," the student said. "It is holy." --Reported by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper, Michael Duffy, Mark Thompson, Douglas Waller and Adam Zagorin/Washington; Brian Bennett/Ramadi; Hassan Fattah, Romesh Ratnesar and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad; and James Graff/Paris
Senior punter Adam Kingston boomed kicks, averaging 38.3 yards per attempt while sophomore place kicker Jim Morocco nailed his only field-goal try—from 30 yards—while making four of five extra points. Only his final effort was blocked, and by then the game was already well out of reach...