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...Amount of tax dollars allotted for the National Peanut Festival Fairgrounds in Alabama...
...golf resorts and a group of television stations. Is he a gunslinging Sunbelt entrepreneur in the mold of Ted Turner? A hedge-fund manager? A contrarian private-equity investor? Not even close. Bronner, 58, is, in his own words, "a government bureaucrat"--the chief executive of Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA), the pension fund for 290,000 state workers and retirees. An unabashed cheerleader for Alabama who is comfortable in the spotlight, Bronner is overturning the image of the pension manager as passive investor--and not without controversy...
...nation's seventh largest passenger carrier, US Airways, which this month emerged from Chapter 11 protection and named Bronner as its new chairman. Some of his ideas for reviving the airline involve RSA's other unorthodox ventures, including its $5 billion in media holdings and its string of acclaimed Alabama golf courses, the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail. "I'll give US Airways free advertising," Bronner says. The pitch: "Fly US Airways to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail...
Being only its site’s third seed, Harvard could have been paired with any of the top 16 seeds that opted not to host. Last year, the Crimson drew No. 4 seed Baylor. This year the top-ranked team at Beren will be No. 15 seed Alabama (17-9), a more beatable...
...Food Network as “a fast-paced battle between two teams with only their love of food in common” brings teams to a local restaurant where they must prepare a surprise regional specialty (such as a cheese dish in Wisconsin or catfish in Alabama). With a stopwatch running, the teams must prepare a scrumptious dinner for two with only some basic ingredients and an extra $20 at their disposal...