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...media, resembles Jackson's Wall Street Project, which pressures corporations to create more investment opportunities for blacks. And now Sharpton is planning to rip the ultimate page from Jackson's book by running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004--the same strategy Jackson used 20 years ago to cement his position...
...additional $250,000. To make his plan work, however, he needs to secure the kind of corporate sponsorship one sees around the pitches of the Serie A or Premiership. In Suwarso's dreams, of course, every player has his chest festooned with logos. So far coffeemaker Torabika and cement manufacturer Indocement have signed on. "We're changing more than the game," says Suwarso's brother and assistant coach Marvin. "We're hoping to change the culture...
...only one direction to go when he carried Lucie's body parts from his apartment. A driveway turns out to the right of the front door; the marina is straight ahead. To the left there is a small parking lot, then a narrow path leading across stones and cement pilings to the tiny beach, which is maybe one-quarter the area of a tennis court. Five meters back from the water is a rock face with a crevice a couple of meters wide extending a few meters from the beach. It is partially open on top, and light streams into...
...July 3 Obara purchased a chainsaw, cement mix and other tools from a hardware store. That afternoon, the manager of Obara's seaside condominium in Miura called police to report a tenant who was behaving suspiciously. Even in the terse language of police reports leaked to the media, the scene that afternoon at Obara's apartment has a Hitchcock-like caste. Obara had cement mix on his hands when he greeted the police at his door. Suspicious, they asked to look around his apartment. Obara consented, but then became agitated when the police asked to look in his bathroom. When...
...work outside the legal system. De Soto estimates the value of their extralegal property at $9.3 trillion--about as large as the annual GDP of the U.S. economy. More than two-thirds of Latin America's construction is never legally registered--a big reason, De Soto found, why cement sales in Brazil bear little relation to official building figures. "We show a President the extralegal map, and it knocks his socks off. He realizes he doesn't govern the majority of his country...