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...management. The $455 million, 63,400-seat arena, designed by architect Peter Eisenman with HOK Sport and featuring the only retractable playing field in North America, is expected to do more than fatten the family's net worth. According to Michael Bidwill, a former federal prosecutor and son of owner Bill Bidwill, who now runs the team's day-to-day business operations, "There is a direct correlation between revenue from new stadiums and being able to compete. The teams with new stadiums are consistently in the play-offs...
...Afterwards, a shop owner, overhearing me complain on the phone about my treatment, invited me to his home for lunch. "The army is disrespectful to us," he said. "They take away our young men and beat them for no reason. We are Pakistanis, but they treat us like foreigners." And so, in his opinion, did the central government. "None of the work on the port has gone to people from Gwadar," he added. "They are spending billions of rupees on it, but they have not even built us a proper hospital." Like the children playing cricket, he seemed to consider...
...late 2003, Webster, who produces cards using that traditional process, took possession of letterpress No. 3--he currently owns seven--by dismantling and transporting it piece by piece through a shaft he had dug in a window well. "The owner of the press told me, 'If you can get it out of the basement, it's yours,'" says Webster, 29, who started Seraph Stationery a year and a half...
...Lisa Krowinski, owner of Sapling Press in Pittsburgh, Pa., who became a full-time letterpress operator in early 2004. She loves the instant gratification letterpress printing offers. "When you're done, you have a stack of whatever you've just printed right in front of you," says Krowinski, who owns three letterpresses. She's a one-person shop, dividing her time between turning out her own stock cards, which she wholesales for $2.25, and custom work like wedding invitations and personal stationery. She projects 2006 revenues in the middle five figures...
...back to the U.S. the following week as quickly as he could. That meant hopscotching across the Middle East, stopping in Athens overnight to change planes. He spent the evening having supper in a local taverna. No one else in the restaurant spoke English, but when the owner realized he had an American in the house just two nights after 9/11, he asked his guest to stand up, face the other diners and listen to a toast...