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COFFEE BREAK The Starbucks bug has bitten Shanghai, but head instead to the Old China Hand Reading Room, a pleasant library cum caféopened by a local photographer. Try the java with slices of thick buttered toast or go local and sip fragrant rose-bud tea. 27 Shaoxing Road, near Ruijin Er Road...
...Next Bud Light Ad Online Could Star You The short unhappy history of online advertising may be about to take a popular turn. Anheuser-Busch Cos. is launching an online ad campaign that allows viewers to create virtual personalities (or "veepers") and email them around to friends. The campaign could turn out to be a runaway online hit, but critics worry that underage folks might be the unintended audience...
Where have you gone, Bud Selig? As players and owners went into extra innings in baseball labor negotiations, the nation turned its lonely eyes to the sport's commissioner, and found - well, very little. Selig was conspicuous in his absence from talks as a strike threatened, and even when he did arrive, two days before the strike deadline, he remained aloof. And so, as the man who very nearly became the only baseball commish to preside over two work stoppages, Bud Selig is our Person of the Week...
...been a bad year to be Bud. Selig's annus horribilis began immediately following last year's World Series, when he announced plans to eliminate several teams even as the newly-crowned Diamondbacks were still unlacing their grass-stained shoes. Then, midway through the 2002 season, Selig made the disastrous decision to call the All-Star Game, which was tied in the 11th inning, because both teams had run out of pitchers. He was booed in Milwaukee, where he was once a hero (for recruiting the Brewers away from Seattle). Fans were outraged, call-in radio shows were...
...were still grinding away in New York, the press was letting Selig have it: AP sports columnist Steve Wilstein called him "the harbinger of doom," and Jack Todd of the Montreal Gazette wrote a scathing bit about "the most inept commissioner in the history of professional sports." Unfortunately for Bud, even Friday's happy ending probably won't do much to convence anyone otherwise...