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...sale sign'," laments Rogan Taylor, a Liverpool fan for almost half a century and the director of the Football Industry Group at the University of Liverpool. "[They] are not just businesses but much more important cultural and social assets for individual places ... This isn't the way these grand institutions should be traded." But with Liverpool among the Premier League's foreign-owned teams - Tom Hicks, owner of baseball's Texas Rangers, and George Gillett, owner of the Montreal Canadians hockey franchise, snapped up the club in February 2007 - Taylor's trying to bring the merry-go-round...
...Suharto's story does make for grand opera: a village boy who grows up into an army general, then acquires absolute power in the wake of a mysterious communist coup and military countercoup. Historians say those tumultuous days in the fall of 1965 sparked half a million murders, and that Suharto and his soldiers were responsible. We students did not know about the killings at the time. If we heard anything bad, we refused to believe it. And if we believed it, we thought it justified. We chose what we thought was freedom against communism. Eventually, many of us changed...
Maybe so, but the basics of grand, bone-jarring deceit cut across cultures - and decades. Like young Nick, Kerviel also devised a way to hide his trades from asleep-at-the-switch "superiors." And like Leeson, he disappeared for a few days, apparently holed up in a Paris apartment, just before the roof fell in. The comparisons are more than cursory. One of the lessons of Leeson (supposedly burned into the brain of trading desks everywhere) was to separate what banks call "the back office," where trades are processed and recorded, from the trading desks. Leeson had run the back...
...part and parcel of Crist's grand 2008 strategy for Florida. Like seemingly everybody who lives here, Crist, a Pennsylvania native, wasn't born in Florida. But he's arguably the state's most unabashed cheerleader, and like many in the state - which is expected soon to pass New York as the nation's third most populous - he's weary of watching small electorates like Iowa and New Hampshire set the presidential nomination agenda...
...group itself is only planning low-key celebrations of the patent anniversary: a special-edition of its 1950s-style Town Plan set with three gold bricks, and a worldwide building contest with a grand finale at Legoland Billund. And for most Google users - itself a website which keeps building and growing in size - the homepage spelling of the company name in Lego blocks Monday will come across as just another of the web giant's quirks. But for the millions who grew up on the brick - and the millions more still fitting them together - that lunchtime visit to the patent...