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...that focused on teamwork, Ricardo and I ended practice without the usual cascarita the boys loved so much. We gathered them together in a circle and talked about the next week. We were starting the season in earnest that week with a home game against our country conference rivals, Chatham Central...
...left Ricardo with the boys, went to my car, and brought back two large boxes. I dumped them down in the middle of the boys. It was time. The boys needed to play in uniforms and I had ordered some at a discount with the Chatham Soccer League, of which I was a board member. A local businessman paid for them...
...hostile plots by the U.S. and nato. Moreover, a group of military officers and international-relations experts in Moscow is advancing new reasons for a buffer zone. They argue that the 21st century will be dominated by a "war over resources," says Yury Fedorov, an expert on Russia at Chatham House in London. Its prevailing ethos will be: "If you have a lot of resources, and I need them, I may use my gun to take them." Moscow's heavy-handed interference in Ukraine's 2004 orange revolution hints at how easily discrepant views about the near abroad could flame...
...Chicago's West Side, in the impoverished Austin neighborhood, Wal-Mart has improved its score in the inner-city market. Last year Wal-Mart tried to put two stores in Chicago, both in black neighborhoods--one in Austin and another on the South Side, in more middle-class Chatham. The middle-class community, less desperate for the jobs, voted against the Wal-Mart store. The outcome in some ways duplicated Wal-Mart's split decision in California, where it lost a bid to open in Inglewood in Los Angeles County but succeeded in Oakland. Wal-Mart is also pushing...
...Expanding into new businesses is a matter of survival for traditional phone companies. "Voice revenue is coming to an end," says Andrew Chatham, Gartner Group's Asia telco analyst. "So phone companies need to look at other areas while they still have money." Paul Berriman, PCCW's head of strategic market development, says such concerns were precisely what prompted it to relaunch NOW as a pay-TV service: "There was the danger that if we didn't act, we could have been made redundant...