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...apartheid regime. But Bacher, now head of the World Cup organizing committee, says the moral grounds behind the ban on his team don't apply to Zimbabwe. "South Africa had a whites-only team because of apartheid," he says. "Zimbabwe has a fully integrated, multiracial team. There is no comparison." At week's end, a boycott remained a strong possibility, but the English and Australian governments, cricket boards and teams were each waiting for one of the others to call the play. When sport is required to do more that it is designed to, the most frequent outcome is confusion
...free seat on the bandwagon. Colts QB Peyton Manning is going to the Pro Bowl again, but Jets counterpart Chad Pennington is getting most of the ink this week, after finishing the season 8-4 as a starter with 22 TDs and a miserly 4 interceptions. Manning, by comparison, threw 19 picks, but still managed one of his finest seasons, setting a club record with a 66.3 completion percentage and tossing 143 balls to Marvin Harrison, who broke the previous league reception record...
...company, the Mississippi band of Choctaw Indians would be the envy of corporate America. With a return on revenue of 41%, the tribe's Silver Star Resort & Casino would top the Fortune 500 profitability list, dwarfing even money spinners like Microsoft, whose 29% return last year seems modest by comparison. The Choctaw Tribe has proved even more productive by another crucial yardstick: influence peddling in Washington. How successful is it? In 1997 the tribe secured its very own special-interest provision hidden in a massive federal-spending bill. And it taps the government for tens of millions of dollars...
...resort, which will also have convention facilities, a beach club and a spa, will add to the Seminoles' lucrative gaming business. Last year the tribe's two casinos, in Hollywood and Tampa, made a combined profit of $216 million on revenue of $254 million--a return of 85%. By comparison, General Electric, often described by the media as America's best-managed company, reported net income of $13.7 billion for 2001, an 11% return on revenue...
...matter how powerful humankind thinks itself to be, the forces of nature have a way of asserting themselves, bringing with them both awe and terror. Fires and floods, tornadoes and droughts--all provide startling images that remind us of the power of the natural world. By comparison, our own efforts can seem puny: a railroad buckles, houses cower before an oncoming storm, fishermen desperately try to combat a flood in torrent. In the night sky, a light show beyond the wildest dreams of human engineers makes us primeval once more, gazing to the heavens with the same kind of wonder...