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...most successful sports franchise in the world; Rupert Murdoch tried and failed to buy the club for $1 billion in 1998. With a worldwide fan base - in August, it's scheduled to play exhibition games before sold-out crowds in the U.S. - and enormous brand recognition in soccer-mad Asia, United has leveraged its stars to sell merchandise from Berlin to Bangkok. But in strict sporting terms, United is a lesser club than Real. Since the European club championship was inaugurated in 1956, United has won just twice. Real has lifted the trophy a record nine times. With Beckham...
...Israeli identified him as an Arab and tried to drag him away, he says. Assaly's mother, who was with him then, tells him to keep a low profile around the hospital after a terrorist attack. "When people behave like that because I am an Arab, it makes me mad," he says. "But I don't think about the nationality of the patient...
...deny he's having fun. "I love flying planes and racing boats," he says. "This is more challenging." But at the same time, he insists, he is deadly earnest about PeopleSoft--and adds that other similar offers may be on the way. "The industry went a little mad over information technology; now we have to adjust," Ellison says. "Companies are going to get gobbled up, absolutely...
...better at home," Günther says. He's now "happy to have time" for his patients again - despite working shorter hours than in Berlin, where 45 hours a week is common. For Günther, adapting to his new working environment meant slowing down from the "mad pace" he was used to at his old, understaffed hospital. "I was respectfully told to take it easy," he remembers. "And that was O.K." Shedding old habits is, in fact, one of the main challenges the new German émigrés face. "People need to learn to forget about...
...wise; in Los Angeles. Over a six-decade career, Peck received five Oscar nominations and won the best actor award in 1962 for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, a small-town lawyer battling racism in To Kill a Mockingbird. Although not all his roles were likable?Peck played a mad scientist who clones Hitler in The Boys from Brazil?he once said, "I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation...