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...telecast nightly nationwide to loyal fans. The Giants have such a mystique that a valued player is yet to defect and the team has even gone on a buying spree in recent years, picking up top players from other squads via free agency. But Watanabe's words are scant consolation to fans of Orix or of Shinjo's team, the Hanshin Tigers of Osaka, where good replacements are not readily available. The fact is, overall attendance has been slipping. TV ratings have fallen. And some baseball officials have expressed concern about the deteriorating quality of play...
...companies appreciate the savings. "We have a very thin team, and the only reason we're able to do that is technology," says Glen Helton, vice president for operations at Popeyes. A scant six managers actually live abroad, each overseeing nearly 50 Popeyes franchises. "We've been able to have fewer employees with greater skills, instead of having more employees with fewer skills...
...European delegation heads for Washington to get a readout on what Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists called "the most anti-environmental act by an American President in modern history." By the time they arrive, the Bush Administration will at least have had plenty of practice -if scant success -in explaining its position. Last week German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who governs in a coalition with the environmentalist Greens, was there to air his differences on global warming and other issues in his first meeting with Bush. And Dutch Environment Minister Jan Pronk, who as chairman...
...There is so much schmoozing going on that scant attention is paid to the awards themselves. But there are cheers when Soderbergh wins Best Direction. Russell Crowe's win draws mixed reactions. Some women gush with happiness. Most of the men glower. One wag at the table defends Crowe's honor as an actor, saying that Crowe's acting skills have been underrated. This produces a murmur of assent from the ladies, until the speaker adds that by this he means that Crowe had obviously fooled Meg Ryan... The defenders of The Man Who Would Be Oscar drown this remark...
...critic of Asian immigration, is back in the news thanks to her One Nation party's role in humiliating the ruling federal coalition through two recent state elections. Many Australians are embarrassed not just by her views but by the eagerness with which the foreign media, which otherwise takes scant interest in Australian domestic politics, obsessively cover her. But should either Australians or the rest of the world worry about the Hanson phenomenon? And don't many of the same Asian nations that now cast aspersions at this supposed upsurge of racism also practice their own forms of raced-based...