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...Fast-forward to 2006, and what are the obsessions of American culture? For starters, getting rich off property--after years of skyrocketing home prices and flattening salaries--which makes the real estate game more relevant than ever. (HGTV has practically become a financial channel, with shows like Designed to Sell, Buy Me and My House Is Worth What?) We've moved from a manufacturing to a service economy, and the white-collar icons--bye, wheelbarrow, hello, laptop--seem aimed at the buyer willing to shell out $29.99 ($10 or so more than the old edition...
...KILLED. Andrei Kozlov, 41, who, as the first deputy chief of Russia's central bank, worked to reform the country's fast-expanding, long-corrupt financial sector-along the way angering "pocket banks" largely controlled by oligarchs; shot by two gunmen outside a soccer arena; in Moscow. In an effort to make the chaotic industry safer, Kozlov cracked down on money laundering, closed shady banks and lobbied to consolidate the nation's 1,200 financial institutions...
...another sack on a fourth-and-goal play in the fourth quarter negated by a penalty, but on the third Holy Cross fourth-and-goal effort his pressure of McSharry forced a bad pass that was intercepted by captain Ryan Tully.“Our inside guys are so fast,” Murphy said. “They’re not tall, but Matt Curtis and Mike Berg, they run like linebackers.”TURF TALK The game marked the first on Harvard’s new FieldTurf surface, installed over the summer. It opened to rave...
...replicate Lenovo's China business model around the world. Execs have jetted to cities from Paris to Bangalore to teach local managers how things are done in China. The goal: penetrate markets by building close ties to both major resellers and mom-and-pop computer centers to target fast-growing small businesses. Then, back up the sales effort with highly efficient and flexible product-supply systems developed in China. "We have a model that works," says Amelio. "We have to get it rolling everywhere...
...rappers met in the early '90s and by all accounts became fast friends, performing together in public and hanging out in private. But the relationship swiftly deteriorated after Tupac suspected Biggie of being involved in a robbery attempt that left him shot and hospitalized. They feuded right up until Tupac's death...