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...Mission Hill area has been plagued by crime and drug problems in the past and remains one of Boston's poorer neighborhoods...
...talking outside his office at the bustling gateway, and Samnang is dressed for work - blue shirt and pants and a walkie-talkie. "Even when we were in power, I started selling weapons to make more money. You know how poor we were and the war made us poorer...
...even if a salary cap did ensure parity, it does it in the wrong way. That is, it balances the playing field by bringing the better teams down to the lesser teams' level, as opposed to the other way around. A salary cap doesn't give the poorer teams any more money to play with. Assuming they are spending as much as they possibly can already, their payrolls will stay virtually the same. Thus, a spending cap does nothing to make the Minnesota Twins any better; it serves only to make them less worse relative to the rest...
Hollywood has seen a lot of foreign investors come and go, often poorer on their departure. Japanese companies lost a bundle in the early 1990s, as did a series of French and Italian ventures. But this wave of German companies isn't buying just studios, as Sony did. These companies are buying production teams and burrowing into the production process. "Each company is pursuing a different strategy involving a complex mix of production and distribution elements," says Stephan Seip, media analyst at Merrill Lynch. Some of those strategies have a fantasy feel--for $65 million...
...Poorer Haitians are less subtle. So far, the only troubles Colombian traffickers have had in Haiti are the frenzied crowds who sometimes ransack their boats and planes upon arrival, hoping to grab some cocaine they can sell back in their shantytowns--at cut-rate prices that would give a drug lord heart failure. European tourists who recently came ashore in sailboats were beaten by mobs because their vessels contained no dope. Diplomats already call Haiti a failed state. But scenes like these are earning the country the brand of something worse: a narco state...