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...League teams not included in UEFA's sums, in February became the top flight's first franchise to fall into bankruptcy.) The leveraged buyouts by American investors of top clubs Manchester United and Liverpool, meanwhile, were "acting principally as a burden" on those clubs, UEFA added in the recent report, "rather than to support investment or spending." That's because the new owners piled the debts incurred in buying the clubs onto the teams' own finances, limiting the cash available for buying new players and therefore the clubs' ability to compete with better-endowed rivals. (See a group-by-group...
...Pakistani government - concluded that Pakistani authorities had "severely hampered" police investigation of the case. Furthermore, it concluded that the Pakistani authorities' failure to effectively examine Bhutto's death had been "deliberate." Drawing on a nine-month period of interviews and study of evidence, the commission's 65-page report does not finger anyone for the murder. Its heavily circumscribed parameters were never going to allow for that. But its findings suggest that there had been a determined effort to deny her adequate security, prejudice the investigation, withhold evidence and block access to key officials. (See TIME's photo-essay "Bhutto...
...added that the two then went on to smear strawberry yogurt all over the white announcement boards. Considering the nature of this new act of vandalism—especially after Adams HoCo had threatened to file a police report for theft of the gong—Ju says that her Eliot compatriots momentarily considered reciprocating...
...moment,” she said, “we wondered if we should file a police report or something, but then thought—'No. That would be too douchey...
...improve British politics? The Conservatives seem to be pushing people power, JFK-style. "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country," intoned Cameron, waving his new manifesto, which also proposes California-style referendums and U.S.-style charter schools. A recent report by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee highlighted strains in the bond between London and Washington and suggested that Britons stop using the phrase "special relationship" to describe it. But if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the U.S.-flavored British election campaign shows that Brit politicians still...