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This arcade draws kids, soccer moms, couples on dates, and goth teens with multiple piercings. The décor’s as colorful as the crowd, with bright pink walls and rainbow polka-dotted blue carpets...
HIRED. NICK LEESON, 38, former expatriate banker in Singapore who brought about the collapse of the U.K.'s Barings Bank in 1995; as commercial manager of soccer club Galway United; in Galway, Ireland. Leeson, whose autobiography Rogue Trader became a best seller and was made into a movie starring Ewan McGregor, has been in demand as a speechmaker since his release from prison in 1999. The Galway appointment is his first new job in a decade...
Here, for example, is Mark Telthorster, 32, a team handball goalie from Columbus, watching two women's teams play the violent and, in the U.S., wholly unappreciated game that has captured his imagination. A fast and not very subtle cross between basketball and soccer, it looks wrong to the basketball-educated eye, explains Telthorster, who hopes to coach the sport professionally, because you may take three full steps before and after dribbling. And, yes--here three or four bodies splat together and hit the floor--because very aggressive body checking is permitted. "Awright, way to deck her, Sandra!" yells...
...white helicopter dropped out of a darkening sky, veered around a thick tree and sank its runners into the lush grass in the middle of a soccer field at El Salvador's leading military academy. A chubby figure dressed in blue jeans and a wind-breaker bolted from the chopper, dashed across the pitch and threw herself into the arms of her weeping mother. A moment later, Inés Guadalupe Duarte Durán was swept into the embrace of her tear-choked father, President José Napoleón Duarte, for whom the nation's civil war had lately become an agonizing...
...some of South Africa's largest companies, from mining heavyweights Harmony Gold and Gold Fields to life insurer Sanlam and Alexander Forbes Financial Services to banking giants ABSA and Standard Bank. The men are also buying playthings. Motsepe owns the Mamelodi Sundowns, one of South Africa's most successful soccer teams. Sexwale, who bought the Oude Kelder winery outside Cape Town in 2002, sponsors the national soccer league and is financing a South African entry on the A1 Grand Prix circuit. Later this year, he will appear in a South African version of The Apprentice, in the Donald Trump role...