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Golf and Nike were not obviously made for each other. Indeed, everything about the golf business was contrary to Nike's corporate DNA. Its core business was footwear and apparel, but golf was driven by equipment. Nike distributed to large national accounts such as J.C. Penney and Foot Locker, while golf products were sold in pro shops and specialty retailers that did nowhere near the volume of business that Nike was used to handling. "The only way to run golf successfully was to run it totally separate from the rest of the company," Nike's Wood says...
...Takoma Park at a 35% rate, better than the 30% for citizens. But the noncitizen figure plummeted over the following seven elections. City clerk Jessie Carpenter speculates that "early on, there was more interest because [voting] was new." She doesn't believe that resurgent concern over illegal immigrants has driven noncitizens from the polls...
...MINUTE CONVERSATION WITH THE miner in West Nicholson turned out to be my last interview. The plainclothes officers brought me to the West Nicholson police station, where I spent the night. The next day I was driven north to the provincial police headquarters at Gwanda. My escorts accused me of planning to write "negative" stories about Zimbabwe--as if arresting me would dispose me to more positive stories--and carried with them a report from West Nicholson's police chief describing me as a "dedicated journalist on a clandestine mission...
...Vice-Chair C. Kai Wu ’09.1. Fifteen Minutes: What are the most significant difference between this year’s and last year’s Yardfest?S. Adam Goldenberg: The most significant difference is that this year the organization is much more student driven. Last year it was organized by administrators and students that called the Yard Fest committee, it was an ad hoc committee brought together by the campus life fellow.2. FM: How is it different now that students are more involved in the planning?A: Everything from Mem steps down to the yard...
...appeal prompted the 35-year-old actor, who has repeatedly declared that he plans on retiring from acting at 40, to take this role. “The high-intensity action movies that they’ve been making lately aren’t really the kind of character-driven movies that I love and that I grew up watching in the ’70s. This is kind of a throw-back to that,” Wahlberg says, explaining that “Shooter” offered the rare opportunity to emulate his favorite childhood characters...