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...businessmen of Broadway know one way to create a hit: hire a big Hollywood star and hope the name on the marquee will pull in the crowds. The romanticists of Broadway prefer another, more storied method: take a kid from the chorus, stick him or her into the lead role and watch as a new star is born. Sometimes this Broadway fable even comes true. Oddly, it did so twice last week...
...basic interest is to have the ability to go into a country and have understandings about our ability to land, or overfly, and to do things that are of mutual benefit." He declines to discuss the specifics of the U.S. presence in the region, beyond saying the U.S. military "prefer to be arranged in ways that give us more options rather than fewer options...
...When you have a big wide chasm and you take a baby step, you fall in,” Turkel said. “I would prefer that the DOE came in and fired the School Committee and our superintendant and shut down our schools...
Home run? That's not the right metaphor for Cuban, who at 6 ft. 2 in. is about the size of a smallish NBA guard. He would probably prefer to think of himself as launching a shot from outside the three-point circle and hitting nothing...
...That's not to say the foreigners are unstoppable. Both Wal-Mart and Carrefour, the world's second largest retailer, tried and failed to crack the Hong Kong market in the 1990s. Hong Kong consumers seemed to prefer familiar neighborhood chain stores. Carrefour lost $400 million between 1996 and 2000 on four Hong Kong outlets. "It all ended in tears, really," says Alan Treadgold, director of retail research for ad agency Leo Burnett Worldwide in Sydney. "They just couldn't make the format work...