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...league that has been kept whole by dipping into the deep pockets of two soccer-nutty billionaire owners has attracted close to $1 billion in outside investment from new franchises, new team owners, public stadium funding and sponsorship money. Adidas kicked in $150 million to become the league's sole uniform supplier, in part to hold off Nike. MLS is close to a new television-rights deal with ABC/ESPN, one in which it will actually get money for its games, instead of having to buy the time from the networks and hope to sell it. And earlier this year...
...N.O.P.D. is too often blamed as the sole source of the problem. That's naive. But there is no denying the department's atrocious history. In the 1990s, a group of officers was arrested for operating a drug-dealing ring within the department. An N.O.P.D. officer hired a hit man to kill a woman who had reported police brutality. Although the department has improved since then, the transcript of the cop ordering the execution, recorded by an FBI wiretap, is lodged in the collective memory of the city...
...entrance fee, spectators will be able to watch games on a big screen, test their skills at soccer stations and attend concerts. On the airways, Adidas scored a major coup by shutting out Nike ads on U.S. English-language broadcasts of the games. The company will also be the sole footwear sponsor on three popular soccer sites: ESPN Soccernet, Soccer on Yahoo! and FIFAWorldcup.com the official site. With the U.S. six to nine hours behind German prime time, distracted workers will flock online for the latest scores. Boasts Simon Atkins, director of marketing communications for Adidas America: "We're heading...
...between "a Labor party which thinks government should direct people's behavior and a Coalition which sees its role as letting families make up their own minds." That's strange, because Howard's policies have been quite prescriptive when it comes to certain families, such as those headed by sole parents...
...continent's two economic powers are not only Bolivia's sole natural gas markets but among its biggest energy investors as well. "Foreign energy companies got very sweet deals when Bolivias energy sector was privatized in the 1990s, and many Bolivians feel they were screwed," says David Mares, a political science professor at the University of California-San Diego and an expert on Latin American energy issues. "But in the end, Morales needs a lot of capital to make this work - which means he needs Brazil and Argentina more than they need him. He's going to have to make...