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...wants to set her up in a respectable life, which requires more money than he can make selling black-market cigarettes in bars. His brains and hustle attract the attention of the local crime boss. Next thing you know, he's rising fast, if dangerously, in the demimonde...
...college of “floppy ducklings,” students who were neither great scholars nor great athletes, musicians or artists. Buck, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, argued that the College still hosted the nation’s top scholars, but that it was not doing enough to attract students that excelled in other ways...
...voted for Republicans in the G.O.P. congressional rout of 1994 stayed home in 2000, contributing to the closest election in modern history. Bush's displays of faith have brought many of those voters back into the fold, but they are still alert for an apostasy. Rove also wants to attract Hispanic voters. In the case of a Gonzales nomination, his two aims could clash...
...Major League Baseball, the median player salary is down 10% this season. Pitcher Kenny Rogers declined a two-year, $10 million offer from the Texas Rangers, thinking his 3.84 earned-run average would attract a better deal. Instead, he's pitching for the Minnesota Twins on a one-year, $2 million contract. "We're competing for a stretched entertainment dollar," says Cleveland Indians general manager Mark Shapiro, whose payroll is down 44% from...
...Like it or not, suburban sprawl is happening in Europe," says Mills Corp. CEO Laurence C. Siegel. "We are going to serve as the downtown for the southern reaches of Madrid." He predicts Xanadú will create more than 4,000 new jobs and attract more than 25 million visitors a year. This is Mills Corp.'s first venture in Europe, but Siegel says the company is close to breaking ground on other supermalls near Barcelona, Rome and Milan. Siegel attributes the smooth opening of Xanadú to the political connections of his partner in Spain, Jaafar Jalabi, the nephew...