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...larger than Podunk has a yearly movie bash. (Note to editor: Please check to make sure Podunk doesn't have a film festival.) Berlin may be more serious, Amsterdam hipper, Sundance more focused, Toronto more congenial. But Cannes, with its 40,000 visitors from around the world, remains the gold standard for movie conclaves...
...mezcal). Much like whiskey or wine, tequila has its own system of classifications. Tequila that has been aged for two months is known as reposado; if it spends more than a year in the barrel, it's classified as añejo. The other popular designation - gold - refers to tequila flavored with caramel. One of the hottest new brands on the market, XXX Siglo Treinta, is a gold. If that's not to your taste, try El Diamante del Cielo, a new and fashionable white tequila. And this time, you can pass on the salt and lemon...
...DIED. Floyd Patterson, 71, gentle and beloved legend of boxing; after years battling Alzheimer's and prostate cancer; in New Paltz, New York. The undersized high school dropout from Brooklyn, New York, won Olympic gold in 1952. Four years later, at age 21, he knocked out Archie Moore to become the world's youngest heavyweight champ-and the most conflicted. The Hall of Famer, who said he had "no self-esteem" as a kid, was so stung by a 1959 loss to Ingemar Johansson that he left the arena in disguise. Yet when he regained the title from Johansson...
DIED. Floyd Patterson, 71, gentle and beloved legend of boxing; after years battling Alzheimer's and prostate cancer; in New Paltz, N.Y. The undersized high school dropout from Brooklyn, N.Y., won Olympic gold in 1952. Four years later, at age 21, he knocked out Archie Moore to become the world's youngest heavyweight champ--and the most conflicted. The Hall of Famer, who said he had "no self-esteem" as a kid, was so stung by a 1959 loss to Ingemar Johansson that he left the arena in disguise. Yet when he regained the title from Johansson a year later...
...home turf, the company is an official World Cup sponsor and will pay $350 million over the next eight years to extend that privilege to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups. Those billions of eyeballs will see only Adidas signage in the stadiums, and the company's black-and-gold Teamgeist (Team Spirit) match ball will be passed around the pitch. What kind of revenue can official sponsorship deliver? One example: the company says it has already sold 10 million World Cup balls, priced from $15 to $130, since December, and expects to ship an additional 5 million by year...