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...season, citing a stomach ulcer and fatigue. In his 1984 best-selling book Hey, Wait a Minute (I wrote a book!), Madden noted that he had been so focused on football that he'd become estranged from his family, at one point thinking his 16-year-old son was twelve. But he didn't stay out of the limelight for long: in the early 1980s he became an iconic pitchman for Miller Lite, appearing in the beer's famous "tastes great, less filling" ad campaign. Madden's barely restrained enthusiasm made him a natural salesman and he showed a knack...
...son of an auto mechanic, Madden was born in Minnesota and grew up in Northern California. It was not a plush upbringing: A multi-sport athlete, Madden remembers taping together broken bats from a local semi-pro baseball team to use for batting practice; one of his first jobs was as a caddy. Recruited to play football at the University of Oregon, he transferred out after his first year and eventually ended up at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1958, Madden suffered a career-ending knee injury during training camp...
...others to take the eye off the ball, allowing us to gain market share." The parent company is still headed by Howard Lutnick, who is the CEO of Cantor and chairman of a publicly traded subsidiary BGC Partners, which is 40% owned by Cantor. Lutnick was famously taking his son to his first day of kindergarten on September 11 and not in Cantor's offices when the World Trade Centers were attacked. Lutnick recently told analysts that he was optimistic for his company despite the uncertain markets, and that the evolving business models of Cantor's largest customers and competitors...
...Museum Hotel, www.21cmuseumhotel.com, is located between one museum devoted to native son Muhammad Ali and another to the Louisville Slugger baseball bat. 21C has made Louisville a world-class destination not just for horse-racing fans on the first Saturday in May but also for art aficionados all year round. Along the roofline of the late 18th century former tobacco warehouse is a row of winsome gargoyles in the form of 4-ft. (1.2 m) red-plastic penguins by the Italian collective Cracking Art. Inside, you don't have to check in to get a vast sampling...
Thirty years ago, Vietnamese soldiers waged a final, furious battle in the hills of Lang Son near the country's northern border to push back enemy troops. Both sides suffered horrific losses, but Vietnam eventually proclaimed victory. Decades later, diplomatic relations have been restored and the two nations, at least in public, call each other friend. Vietnam's former foe is a major investor in the country, bilateral trade is at an all-time high, and tourists, not troops, are pouring...