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...year history of Japanese professional baseball, the word "strike" has meant only one thing?and it wasn't a labor walkout. Japanese players are loyal company men first, superstars second, and even in a reform-minded era, baseball is a time capsule of old-fashioned hierarchy. So when players threatened a strike (albeit only on weekend games) last week to protest a plan to combine the two professional leagues and merge the debt-strapped Kintetsu Buffaloes into the Orix BlueWave, it was clear that something was very wrong...
...strike could still go ahead. But there is hope on the horizon for Japanese baseball: last week's compromise also eased long-standing restrictions on the creation of new teams. That may open the door for 31-year-old Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie, who says he wants to reform Japanese baseball but saw a previous bid for the Buffaloes spurned. If the current showdown succeeds in opening the door for him and others, it could mark the start of a turnaround for Japan's favorite sport...
Although Harold said afterwards that the reform of the prison wasn’t “specifically” due to one of Bush’s initiatives, she said that he had funded similar faith-based programs...
...major political crisis; in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Once considered the heir apparent to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who retired last year, Anwar maintained that he was being persecuted for having crossed his former boss. When Mahathir fired him in 1998, Anwar had led tens of thousands in demanding democratic reform, in the largest demonstrations Malaysia had seen in decades. DISMISSED. Sexual-assault charges against KOBE BRYANT, 26, basketball star; after the woman who accused him of rape declined to testify against him; in Eagle, Colorado. The Los Angeles Lakers guard had been charged with raping the hotel clerk, then...
GALLAGHER: If Bush wins and the Republicans do surprisingly well in the Senate and the Democrats feel they paid a price for their stand opposing tort reform, you could get some significant relief for companies with asbestos liabilities. Some, like maybe USG, if they go bankrupt, are $5 stocks, but if we get asbestos relief are $35 stocks...