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...upstart 10-team league in a nation weaned on a different type of football. But MLS has steadily grown since its inception, and on March 18, the league announced it would award its 17th franchise to Vancouver, which in 2011 will become the second Canadian city to field a club. With its 14th campaign about to kick off, TIME spoke to Commissioner Don Garber about the league's growth, its goals, and its most famous player, David Beckham...
...trying to capture a larger piece of an ever-growing soccer market in this country. There's no shortage of soccer fans in America. We need fans that watch the English Premier League or follow teams from Mexico and Argentina to be fans of their local MLS club too. (Listen to Dick Vitale Name His Top 10 NCAA Tournament Moments...
...Securities-lending is supposed to be a sort of Christmas club of high finance. Companies like insurers, which own tons of equities and Treasury bonds that they are holding long term, lend them out short term, often overnight, to borrowers who need the shares to fulfill other commitments. For instance, if hedge funds want to sell shares short, they borrow them, putting up cash collateral that includes a small spread to the lender. Typically, the owner of the shares takes that collateral and invests it in something with low risk and of short duration, like commercial paper. The lender...
...angry. I am, in fact, frustrated that we've civilized ourselves out of really satisfying scapegoat rituals: The ancients would have staged a mass immolation of the AIG casino pigs in their private jets or crucified Bernie Madoff on the 18th hole at the Palm Beach Country Club, preceded by a public show trial with Jon Stewart as chief magistrate. You probably need an over-the-top catharsis or two like that to get the popular rage under control. As it is, guilt and anger are being splashed about chaotically and inefficiently--and people like Barack Obama, who had nothing...
...Girl scouts, the Rainbows, Sunday school." -Olson's mother, when asked in 1975 about the interests held by her daughter, the president of her high school's pep club...