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...with McBride, a former Marine with a Bronze Star and a folksy manner who gave up a student deferment to go to Vietnam. Last year, when he found himself "screaming at the TV set, frustrated" at where the state was headed, McBride quit his post as managing partner of Holland & Knight, which he had built into the fifth largest law firm in the U.S. (his wife was once head of Bank of America in Florida), and launched his long-shot bid for Governor. McBride dresses like Columbo and campaigns like the late Governor Lawton Chiles, a Democrat who appealed...
...with McBride, a former Marine with a Bronze Star and a folksy manner who gave up a student deferment to go to Vietnam. Last year, when he found himself "screaming at the TV set, frustrated" at where the state was headed, McBride quit his post as managing partner of Holland & Knight, which he had built into the fifth largest law firm in the U.S. (his wife was once head of Bank of America in Florida), and launched his long-shot bid for Governor. McBride dresses like Columbo and campaigns like the late Governor Lawton Chiles, a Democrat who appealed...
...viewers, these outlets are drying up. "It's now up to us to take over that role," he says, so SFS Media plans to produce its own TV programs and webcasts. The major labels seem unsure whether to regard these orchestral maneuvers as a threat or an opportunity. Bill Holland, divisional director of Universal Classics and Jazz, talks of possible future joint ventures, while BMG executives mutter about the "ripple effect" of the new royalties agreements. They'd better make up their minds soon. With new labels imminent from other ensembles, the bandwagon is rolling - and the upstarts are beginning...
...Yang's acquaintances and local business people in Shenyang if they are surprised by his current woes, and the answer is an emphatic "No." The cause of his fall, they claim, is most likely Holland Village, his 220-hectare re-creation of a Dutch city on the outskirts of Shenyang. Yang, who carries a Dutch passport, got hooked on Holland while studying at Leiden University there. The partly-finished development looks like a dystopian Disney World. Within its gates, which are flanked by massive golden lions, are the offices of Yang's local empire, some of which are housed...
...Questions are also being raised about the way Yang secured land for the project. In July, the Guangzhou-based newspaper Southern Weekend published a story suggesting that Yang got the go-ahead to break ground at Holland Village under false pretenses. The article said the business plan submitted to Shenyang authorities called for high-tech farming and tourism, and Yang paid a much lower price for the land than if he'd declared he intended to use it for home construction. Says a manager at one of Yang's Shenyang companies: "As far as I know, building apartments was never...