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...Wilson made the jump. He signed a minor league contract with the Brewers and was assigned to the organization’s rookie-level affiliate, the Helena Brewers, in the distant Pioneer League...
...many Midwest farmers in the 80s, John faced financial hardship and was forced to sell most of the farm and its equipment as larger companies took over most of America’s farming needs. A decade later, however, he was able to make a surprising comeback as a pioneer of organic farming with the assistance of the Community Support Agriculture, and transform the former family farm into a volunteer-driven community farm specializing in organic products...
...quick Rx: offshore outsourcing. In addition to St. Kitts, India, Britain, Belize and Jamaica are using the nursing-school slot shortage as a selling point to recruit American students. The pioneer of this movement is an 88-year-old entrepreneur named Robert Ross. He made his mark in the 1980s when he founded medical and veterinary schools in Dominica, despite having no background in either medicine or education. Ross University grew into a profitable institution with more than 2,000 students, and Ross sold it for $135 million in 2000 to a private-equity firm. He has reapplied his winning...
...With Monika and The Naked Night. Bibi Andersson, of the fresh face and buoyant spirit, was his next live-in love; she anchored the mid-'50s films that brought Bergman his international esteem. He met Ullmann in 1964, and wrote Persona - the film that reestablished him as an artistic pioneer - in part so he could be with her. Ullmann became his muse for the next decade, most indelibly in the TV-serial-turned-film Scenes from a Marriage. She would also direct films from two of his late scripts, Private Confessions and Faithless, and star in his last work, Saraband...
...united to push for immigration reform. The possibility that there is common ground to be colonized by those willing to look for it offers a tantalizing prospect of alliances to come, but only if Democrats can overcome concerns within their party. "One-third gets it," says a Democratic values pioneer, talking about the rank and file. "A second third understands that this can help us win. And another third is positively terrified...