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...Tigers' sole nod to their lameness was hiring Mike Veeck, the son of Bill Veeck, the Hall of Fame owner who organized the disco-album bonfire at Comiskey Park in the '70s, to do their promotions. So they did have Duct Tape Night, Magic Night with illusionist Aaron Radatz, a Christian concert after an Angels game and Baseball Card Blitz, where kids under 15 got to trample one another on a field littered with 50,000 packs of baseball cards. But Veeck didn't go far enough. First of all, he should have removed the Tigers from those baseball-card...
...hand. He loved my wife Connie, who's been a friend to that family for a long time. He grabbed my hand and said, 'Son, cling to her; cling to her; cling to her.' What I saw at that moment is that he would have traded every bit of fame, fortune--everything that Johnny Cash meant to the world--for five minutes with June...
Greenwald cites Federal Express and their fame for overnight delivery as an example of excellent marketing from which women can learn valuable lessons...
...film Velvet Goldmine, the ex-wife of a '70s glam rocker declares "how essential dreaming is to the character of the rock star." In 2003 the dream seems more easily realized than ever. Today fame feels within almost anyone's reach, thanks to TV talent shows like American Idol and new digital recording technologies, which allow the humblest garage band to own a home music studio...
...irresponsible and illegal management "absolutely false." Meanwhile, average Algerians are blaming the boyish financier, who is known as "Moumen," for causing the loss of over 20,000 Khalifa Group jobs; hundreds of thousands of other Algerians will never get back their Khalifa bank accounts. "Moumen's growing success, fame and fortune was so amazing, it gave many Algerians hope that 'finally, we can have the good life, too,'" comments Waël Hasnaoui, an Algerian working in Paris as an advertising consultant, and a member of Khalifa's original social circle. "In fact it was incredible - literally. His entire business...