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...elegant Taj Mahal Hotel, a fast-talking broker rhapsodized about a new Swiss-based hedge fund that he's hawking to foreigners. "The upside potential is huge. The downside risk is minimal," he assured me. Foreign investors are so receptive to India, that kind of giddily unrealistic pitch might just work. Indeed, a director at a Bombay brokerage house told me he has been startled by recent encounters with foreign investment firms. Their attitude, he says, is "'Let's just get invested quickly. It's going to boom for the next 20 years, so let's get a piece...
...there, and ticket prices-already baseball's highest-continued to escalate. Schilling wouldn't be ready for the opener in Yankee Stadium and Wells would start in his place. The rotation would set up so that Tim Wakefield, the 10-year vet-longest tenure on the team-would pitch the home opener at the Fens, on the mid-April day when the Sox would receive their rings. This pleased me no end. I feel proud like a parent (and fearful like a parent) whenever Wakefield toes the rubber and prepares to lob that flutterball of his. He's my favorite...
...champs anymore. I always felt when the Yanks were winning every year that once the first pitch was thrown, there were no more world champs. Everyone's equal...
...Even as we took our stances in standing room, the ceremony began. There was to be a solid hour of pomp and circumstance before the first pitch, the twin centerpieces being the awarding of World Series rings and the hoisting of the World Champs banner. In short centerfield several musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops were arrayed, and to kick things off they played some Fens faves like "Sweet Caroline." Then the rings were bore in from left field by wounded members of the military-real heroes, not the baseball kind. Later, after receiving his ring...
...projectiles struck AC Milan’s goaltender Nelson Dida in the head, forcing the suspension of the match and the evacuation of the pitch. When the two sides returned, the flares rained down once more, prompting the end of the contest...