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What is unusual is that all those teams are managed by Major League Soccer (MLS). The pro league born of the highly successful 1994 World Cup staged in the U.S., MLS has struggled for a decade to find its place in the sports-entertainment complex. But by thinking like an entrepreneur and managing like a global business, the league is facing the prospect that many concluded was unreachable in the U.S.: success. "What we have today is far more stability, far more credibility and far more optimism about our business and far more popularity than we've had," says...
...they will find one another and start killing one another again. They will go where the housing and the drug users are. Perhaps most important of all, they will carry with them the petty disputes of the past, along with their assumptions about the consequences. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] KATRINA'S DEADLY RIPPLES...
...first the Catalina apartment complex was nice and quiet, Johnson says. The apartments are bordered by a brick wall with New Orleans--style lamps. But as weeks went by and more evacuees moved in, he started spending more time inside. He and Robertson, who had worked as a cook in the French Quarter, cooked dinner at each other's apartments and watched TV. Soon almost everyone in Johnson's building was from New Orleans...
...with her daughter Harper on her lap, she hammered out the first episode of Grey's Anatomy, a medical drama about three female and two male surgical interns in a fictional Seattle hospital. She stocked her pilot with the kind of complex, ambitious, clever, confused women she knew. And the guys? Actually, she didn't want them to be so very real. "They were my fantasy men," says Rhimes of Drs. Burke (Isaiah Washington) and Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), two more senior surgeons. "They got to say and do things that I wish men would...
...academy, either—nearly every sphere has been touched. Sports managers can crunch statistics for hours on end to figure out their lineups, politicians can better understand (and tweak) the demographics of their electorate, and financiers have a picture of the market which would have been considered unfathomably complex just a few decades...