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...alone, the Tennis Welcome Center program will have marginal impact," contends Marc Ganis, president of Sportscorp Ltd. in Chicago. "What's missing is aggressive economic incentives like equipment discounts and free lessons." Jim Baugh, the former president of Wilson Sporting Goods who now heads up the Tennis Industry Association (TIA), says no tennis governing body can mandate price controls. But Web transparency can create local competition. Says Baugh: "If I'm a tennis club and I know that three or four other clubs will appear when a customer does a ZIP-code search, I'm now going to offer...
...that Bob Marley cut with Scratch - a bit of a surprise, since Perry claims to have turned his back on reggae music. But then even Perry's most fervent admirers suspect he rocketed out of our solar system some 20 years ago, fueled by a copious intake of rum, Tia Maria and marijuana. And, interviewing him, you can see what they mean: "It's come to my head that it's going to be a melting pot - melt down all evil spirits and evil souls," says Perry, before digressing into raps on the necessity for healthy living, the coming...
...recent congressional hearing, Tony Tether, head of the Pentagon agency that houses the program, said TIA would be operated with the expectation that "the American public and their elected officials must have confidence that their liberties will not be violated before they would accept this kind of technology...
...usual lonely-but-superior Disney heroine a twist: she is a brat who has anger issues. And far from trying to save China or morph from mermaid to human, this Hawaiian handful has no goal loftier than the status quo--to keep living with her frazzled sister Nani (Tia Carrere...
...Vito Corleone. Creative chicanery: that's capitalism, Third World-style. If films weren't overtly political, they were insistently social. Some of the strongest works examined the working-class, the out-of-work, the criminally forlorn. The Brazilian City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, is a ferocious fresco of Rio slum kids who grow up to be vicious gangsters, if they don't die first. The movie's style is as hyper as the coked-up kids, but City of God manages to hold dozens of horrifying stories in some kind of coherence with...