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...thought about buying yourself an English Premier League soccer team over the past few years, the chances are you're wealthy - and foreign. Overseas investors have bagged seven of the country's top-flight teams in the last five years, from the $218 million that Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich found for London club Chelsea in 2003, to the $1.4 billion shelled out for Manchester United a couple of years later by U.S. tycoon Malcolm Glazer (owner of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers). The investors' goal: to score a slice of the richest soccer league in the world. Buoyed...
...club and footing the bill for a new stadium. In return, individual fans - limited to a single share in the business - would each vote to elect executives to run the club. It's a model of ownership popular on the continent: Spanish soccer giants Barcelona are among several top-flight teams in the country to be owned by its fans...
...increasingly filled not just with migrants' sandals, but executives' lace-ups. Prayer rooms at London's multinationals are no longer used by migrant janitors and support staff, but by lawyers, accountants and bankers. Umar Aziz, a litigator in London, recalls a clutch of law firms courting a top-flight Muslim candidate. Aziz's firm, with its prayer room and strong Muslim community, had a clear edge. When a rival firm called and vowed to match any offer, the candidate said: "I'd like a prayer room and ablution facilities." They said they'd have to get back...
...singles, the Crimson could only capture two wins. Sibilski, who took the Flight A singles title at the Harvard Invitational in November, played No. 3 singles and overwhelmed Neveklovska...
...excited to see this product!" he exclaimed Saturday in Lutz, Florida, outside of Tampa, while visiting a company called Opinicus, which makes "Level D" flight simulators...