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...terrible to wake up and wonder why this person's head is on the other pillow," confesses a New York City writer who slept with about two dozen women in the first months after his divorce. "It was painful for them and me too." Says a Chicago bar owner: "All the happy-go-lucky singles in my place tell me that they do not want a relationship. Then six months later they are engaged." A businessman in the Boston area, currently in mid-divorce, is swearing off the one-night stand. "I don't want it, don't need...
...that "ten years ago, I would walk into a nightclub and be literally pinched by men, and guys would ask me pointblank if I wanted to get laid. Today there is a general softening in attitude. The days of the hard hustle are gone." Says Stephen Greer, 33, co-owner of three Chicago nightclubs: "If you don't work in a candy store, every piece of candy looks great. But today everybody works in a candy store?it's so easy for everybody to have sex. So people are becoming more selective: holding out for just the right candy, just...
...some observers, football is a lame excuse for the team's poor marketing efforts. "No one in our city seems to know about them," says Joe Brock, a native New Orleanian who is part owner of a local technology firm. "You go to the game and look around and wonder, 'why aren't there more people who know about this...
...January, billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban echoed that sentiment, showing little sympathy for the Hornets' struggles. "Somebody's got to get off their ass and sell tickets," he said. "They've got the best record in the Western Conference, and they can't get people to come? That's not New Orleans, that's effort." Shinn called Cuban to tell him he was "very insulted" by the remarks, and in an e-mail interview with TIME, Cuban insisted he wasn't trying to "insult" Shinn and offered his early experience with the floundering Mavericks as a blueprint...
...Regardless of its intent, Shinn rejects the criticism. "It's easier to do a good job when you're in a huge market, and you've got a lot of money," he says. "I'm not criticizing my partners, but I don't think there's another owner in the NBA that can make this work...