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...bleak prospect for peace in Colombia quiets the car. Then the talk turns to soccer. The Colombians will face the Mexican national team on Sunday afternoon. It always raises spirits to talk about soccer...
...seems, is yet another twist on the axiom that "bad news for Main Street is good news for Wall Street." That saw is predicated on the notion that bad economic news means the Fed is more likely to cut interest rates, cheering stocks and bonds alike with the prospect of cheaper money and stimulated corporate investment. And bad news there was - the Conference Board reported that consumer confidence fell in a July of stagnant stock prices and rising layoffs, and the National Association of Purchasing Managers said that manufacturing, in a coma for many months now, was still getting worse...
...there were gaps in the throng. A little late in the day (for it has been clear since Prague that peaceful groups were being used as cover by a violent fringe) some well-known organizations, like the environmental group Friends of the Earth, had been sufficiently worried by the prospect of violence to stay away from Genoa...
...industry. When Callaway introduced a revolutionary, ultra-powerful driver called the ERC II, the USGA decreed that the club had a rule-violating "springlike effect" on the ball. The attendant publicity has put a devastating backspin on sales of the ERC II, but it also raises the disturbing prospect of a curb on further technological enhancements to clubs...
...decade ago, the prospect of a Japanese invasion of European football fields would have been laughable. There were some one-off success stories: Yasuhiko Okudera who played in various divisions in Germany from 1977-86, including the Cologne F.C. side that contested the 1978 Champion's Cup. In the 1990s, Kazuyoshi Miura played briefly for Brazil's Santos and Italy's Genoa. But Japan did not even have its own independent professional circuit until 1993 when the J-League was launched?and even then the competition's brightest play came from over-the-hill foreign players like England's Gary...