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...soccer ad that has dribbled around the Web faster than Pelé in his prime. In the spot, Ronaldinho, a Brazilian considered the world's best soccer player, laces up his new Nike cleats, the Swoosh as golden as his game, and then, from the top of the 18-yd. box, fires a soccer ball off the 4-in. crossbar. Before the ball touches the ground, he corrals the rebound on his chest, juggles the ball with his feet and repeats the feat three more times. It's the soccer equivalent of hitting four straight half-court hook shots in basketball...
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...while the free meals, luxury sky box tickets and other gifts Abramoff spread around Washington have gotten a lot of powerful people in trouble over the last year, one junket that he arranged is proving particularly damaging. In August 2002, Abramoff flew Reed, Safavian, Congressman Bob Ney of Ohio, and Ney's former chief of staff, Neil Volz, on a rented Gulfstream II jet to St. Andrews, Scotland, for five days of golf, food and merriment. In the last few weeks, court action and new e-mails have tainted all four guests on the trip...
...says David Feider, a spokesman for the grain exporter Cargill. "We're not diverting cargo," he says. The prospect of corn being dumped on the domestic market has already depressed spot prices. But don't expect a break in the price of cornflakes. The corn in a 1-lb. box costs cereal makers just 3¢, a tiny part of the total cost, according to Robert Wiser, an agricultural economist at Iowa State University. Higher energy costs more than offset any cuts in the price of corn...
...three-quarters of the council votes in favor of the proposal this week, a new committee will be formed specifically for outreach—conducting surveys, meeting with student groups, and e-mailing House lists—and for student services, such as Harvard-Yale shuttles and cardboard box sales. If the amendment fails, the CLC will most likely continue to exist in its current form. The amendment was one of three proposals suggested for changing the council’s structure that each involved dissolving the CLC, which had previously organized large scale-social events. The UC ceded campus...