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...fans and a competitive if inexperienced team. But the state's flinty taxpayers have refused to chip in for a new stadium to replace the charmless Metrodome, meaning that the Twins can't enhance revenues from skyboxes and naming rights and such. The Twins also have an owner, billionaire banker Carl Pohlad, who has been unwilling to invest in big salaries. "It makes no sense for Major League Baseball to be in markets that generate insufficient local revenues to justify the investment in the franchise," said commissioner Bud Selig. Minnesota brings in $25 million locally, near the bottom. The league...
...safety locks, no stair guards for this moment, and parents of six-year-olds and 26-year-olds find themselves confounded by their inability to do their most basic job. "I feel it has changed my relationship with my children," says George Egan, a Pittsburgh, Pa., investment banker, of the fallout from the attacks. He and his wife Annie have two sets of twins, ages 3 and 6. "When I go upstairs at night to check on them I now feel somehow less confident in my ability to keep them safe. I try hard to keep them out of harm...
...Bush team could use the break. They're bushed. Though it was often remarked in the early days of the administration, that this crew was defined by its 9 to 5 work ethic, much of the staff was never able to keep the president's banker's hours. Particularly worn down are the veterans from the campaign days. A lot of them started that effort more than three years ago. When that was supposed to be over, they had to face the 36 day Florida sprint. All the post-election vacations they'd been dreaming about were cancelled. The Tampa...
...lavish lifestyle associated with Harvard rarely includes financial aid. To a subset of wealthy students, Harvard’s estimated $37,750 cost for the 2002-2003 year has never been on their radar. Meredith E. James ’04, whose father is a New York City investment banker, is reflective of this population. “My family is comfortable. There is no reason we should apply for aid when we can afford school already...
...that would involve graduate school.” But Matthews knows her loans must be paid off before accrued interest puts her family deeper in the hole. “I’m a Religion concentrator. I’m not interested in becoming an investment banker. I think about it all the time...