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What does that mean for perpetual also-rans like Cleveland, which lost a franchise record 105 games this season, and Houston, which finished at 65-97, the same record the Braves had a year ago?
The Indians are taking the same approach with the youngest team in baseball at an average of 26.1. There's a new ballpark being built and a new general manager, John Hart, and new president Rick Bay, hoping to breathe new life into the franchise.
Last spring, Harvard Square residents successfully defeated a proposal to open a Boston Chicken franchise on Brattle St. Porter and Central Squares lack the organized neighborhood groups that can lobby against the establishment of fast food franchises.
Two years ago, proprietor Tracy Parsons, 28, left Los Angeles' dog-eat-dog garment industry to start a home-delivery bakery for puppies. Then she invested $5,000 of her savings, persuaded a bank to back her and set up shop on ritzy Beverly Drive. Parsons has added a mail...
So, primed by the studios, moviegoers now expect summer pictures to have hairy chests. Cinema is action, the theory goes, and action -- aggression, propulsion, flying higher, shooting quicker, thinking with your fists -- is a male franchise. Women are supposed to go off in a corner and . . . nurture something. This is...