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...store, Yoshiaki inherited not only the railway and real estate portions of the empire but also his father's political clout: he is close to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, for example, and backed him in his fight for the leadership in 1987. A rugged sportsman who owns the national-champion baseball team, the Seibu Lions, Yoshiaki flies around the country aboard his jet helicopter to visit his properties and shows up on lists of the world's wealthiest people. He has an estimated net worth of $18.9 billion, compared with Seiji's $1.8 billion...
...tended to lock him in place. In 1950, after the short-lived All-America Football Conference disbanded, the leftover 49ers and Browns were derisively absorbed into the N.F.L. "They don't even have a football," remarked first commissioner Elmer Layden. Before Cleveland's big-league debut against the champion Philadelphia Eagles, Brown gathered his rinky-dinks all around -- players with names like Groza, Motley and Graham -- and delivered a pep talk of two sentences. Referring to the star of both the Eagles and the league, he said dryly, "Just think. Tonight you're going to get to touch Steve...
...said more and more these days, was then. I believe that I am now the only wood-stove bore still active on my mile of dirt road. My neighbors have concluded that full-time wood heating is dirty, dangerous (chain saws are worse tempered than alligators), economically foolish, a champion time waster and brutishly hard work. In this they are correct...
Last night, the Crimson faced a tougher battle from the defending Ivy champion Big Red (3-8, 0-2). Cornell had a 69-68 lead with two minutes remaining in the game, but Gielen nailed a three-pointer to put Harvard...
Officially, China is a champion of black-African interests. The government has denounced South Africa's policy of apartheid and devoted the lion's share of its scanty foreign aid to assisting 45 friendly African states. Beijing also gives scholarships to 1,600 black students each year to study at Chinese universities. Unofficially, though, many Chinese consider blacks racially inferior and question their government's aid to Africa when citizens at home are tightening their belts...