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...League can look forward to "a much brighter future of growth," says Hicks. If so, that would be one of the business world's more improbable turnarounds. Less than 20 years ago, English football was known more for rabid fans and decrepit stadiums than for the sort of classy crowd that fills the suites at the stadiums of Chelsea and Manchester United. How did the local game of the English working class become a global business? And can it stay on top? Before English football could take over the world, it had to sort itself out. And just as Liverpool...
True, but with preteen girls gabbing about the show in Web chat rooms and snapping up Glinda earrings and DEFY GRAVITY shirts at the Ozdust boutique, they're the crowd the show has really grabbed. "I liked Elphaba because she was different," says Jami, a 10-year-old in Buffalo Grove, Ill., who has virtually memorized the script from reading the $40 coffee-table companion book and recently acted out the entire show with two friends in her bedroom. "It made me feel that it's good to be different...
Smith was the only one, too, in Jamestown's first fragile years, with the ability to impose order and direction upon the bold but uneven and quarrelsome crowd that journeyed in leaking wooden boats to the far side of the world to claw out an English beachhead. "His mixture of great white father and avenging god superbly achieved what he wanted--a food supply," wrote Barbour. With the colony's survival hanging in the balance, "other questions were academic...
That describes Rupert Everett's character in Shrek the Third: Prince Charming, who forms an anti-ogre posse of all the other fairy-tale losers, including Cinderella's stepsisters, Rumpelstiltskin and the whole sad crowd of fabled flops. Charming is their perfect ringleader; his very name suggests he was supposed to be destined for hero status. "He's a victim of circumstance," Everett notes. "He was brought up spoiled and good-looking in a culture of envy. He's quite naive and he never gets anything right. He just wants to get his happily-ever-after." And he would crush...
...want this to be a country where everyone has the same chances I had," John Edwards recently told a large crowd at the Electric Park Ballroom in Waterloo, Iowa. "I want to live in a country where you can go from having nothing to having everything." He paused. "Not sure I want to live in a country where people pay $400 for haircuts." There was a bolt of laughter. "So embarrassing," Edwards said. "So embarrassing...