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Gammons gave much of the credit for transforming baseball into a major industry to George Steinbrenner, the owner of the New York Yankees...
...George has had more to do with changing the business than any man in the history of baseball,” he said. He applauded Steinbrenner as the first owner to successfully brand a team, and pointed to similar marketing successes with the Boston...
...prevent sporadic school violence. Some Chinese parents appear to be taking matters into their own hands. Beijing Special Protection Security Consulting, which provides bodyguards to rich entrepreneurs, is planning later this month to expand their services to schoolchildren. They are having no problem drumming up new business, says company owner Cui Fengxian. "Our clients have been growing steadily" since the schoolyard killings began in August, he says. Bodyguards, however, can't protect kids from the violence they...
...southern Thailand. In response, Buddhists are arming themselves?and not just in the villages. Every Sunday a Thai businessman drives his armor-plated car to a navy firing range outside Narathiwat town, where he and other local Buddhists practice how to shoot. While a bank manager and a bookshop owner blast away with sleek Italian-made shotguns, the businessman?who doesn't want to be named?takes out a Walther PPK pistol and deftly peppers a target with bullets. "Want to try?" he asks through wisps of choking cordite. "We are being victimized and killed every day. The government...
...before the national debate champion had a chance to make his case for why he should remain on the show, an irate bridal salon owner cut in, using a verbal slash-and-burn technique intended to make the other female contestant, the brainy Jennifer Massey, a 1999 Harvard Law School graduate, look ridiculous...