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...sponsorship strategy has yielded a few early successes. For the soccer team, the N.O.C.I. has inked two-year deals with LG Electronics, a South Korean company; Iraqna, a subsidiary of Egyptian conglomerate Orascom; and Bestseller, a Danish apparel company. Each contract is worth between $300,000 and $550,000. The N.O.C.I. has reached out to U.S. companies with less success. A delegation met with Nike and Motorola in April. "It was the pitch from hell," says Hayder al-Fekaiki, director of IraqiSport, a London-based start-up that the N.O.C.I. hired to help negotiate its sponsorship deals. He cited...
...coverage of the affair, Bershidsky says. But he's modestly optimistic that the killing will be solved; members of the country's ruling élite are "pretty shaken" by the murder, he explains. Few share his optimism. Other than the fact that Klebnikov's murder was a contract killing, nothing is clear - not even how many bullets struck him on the evening of July 9, as he walked to a nearby metro station. Work is the likely motive. Journalism is a high-risk profession in Russia. Twenty-one reporters - all, except Klebnikov, Russian citizens - have been killed in the line...
After Farkes was selected by his hometown Boston Red Sox as a draft-eligible sophomore in the 39th round in June—far lower than many baseball insiders has projected—Harvard’s single-season and career home run king opted to honor his contract with the Gatemen in hopes of raising his stock...
DIED. PAUL KLEBNIKOV, 41, editor of Forbes Russia and an investigative journalist; of gunshot wounds inflicted by an unknown assailant as he left his office in Moscow; the shooting had the hallmarks of a contract hit. A New Yorker of Russian descent, Klebnikov won notoriety in Russia in the late '90s for his writings on corruption and his coverage of controversial businessman and politician Boris Berezovsky...
...prevent the practice, they put immense pressure on players from lesser foreign powers to cry injury when the national team comes calling, or even to "retire" from international football at ridiculously young ages. Just last week, for example, Glasgow Rangers axed their popular captain Craig Moore and put his contract up for sale. His offense? Making himself available to lead his native Australia at this summer's Olympics in Athens...