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...enjoying the best season of their 101-year history. Minor-league attendance has risen 29% over the past nine years, far outpacing the majors' 3% growth. Last year the minors drew 38.8 million fans, the largest total since 1949. This season could be a record breaker as minor-league owners, seeing profits in a business that had stagnated for decades, have opened new stadiums and offered every conceivable promotion to attract fans. Indeed, the showmanship is a throwback to the days of Bill Veeck, the legendary, maverick big-league owner who once sent a midget to bat. The St. Paul...
...Cambridge License Commission will notify Tommy’s owner Gurcharan S. Gill by the end of the month that he is to appear at a disciplinary hearing on Sept. 3 for violations of the conditions of his license, said Richard Scali, the commission’s executive officer...
Tommy’s previous owner, Mian Iftikhar, had sold Tommy’s to Gill this March because of the loss in profits he suffered when the closing time changed. He said the change lost him 15 to 20 percent of his daily sales...
Iftikhar said when he bought the pizzeria in February 2001, he had assumed he was entitled to the 3 a.m. permit given to the previous owner...
...last week there was little indication that much had changed downrange. Young men with crew cuts still loiter in bars, fondling Filipina and Russian women, or paying for lap dances. And at least some of the bars still offer "VIP services." The bar owners deny that their dancers are tricked or forced into prostitution. Hyun Ju, Club Y's manager, is emphatic that "no woman has ever been mistreated at this club." She claims that "the owner treats the girls like family. He even takes the girls on holiday to the swimming pool." Kim Kyong Soo, president of the Korean...