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After 16 years coaching football, Ameritrade CEO JOE MOGLIA knows comebacks. Once a dotcom disaster, Ameritrade has revived on his watch. It recently snubbed a bid from E-Trade and instead bought TD Waterhouse U.S.A., part of Toronto-Dominion Bank. Moglia spoke with TIME's JYOTI THOTTAM about online trading in the post-bubble...
...Arby's franchiser Bailey Co. are blink-enabling their payment systems, beginning in Colorado-area stores; 7-Eleven's 5,300 U.S. stores will be enabled by next year, says Rick Updyke, V.P. of business development. And perennially coinless drivers in Coral Gables, Fla., can register online with Toronto-based PayMint and pay the city's 4,600 parking meters by cell phone. Parkers dial a toll-free number, log in, enter their lot number and log out after parking. (Of the current 850 users, 10% have agreed to pay the $7-per-month service fee; the rest pay 25?...
...response from many Canadians was dismay. One writer, in The Toronto Sun, accused Sir Bob of appearing, “as heavy-handed and self-righteous as the tin-pot dictators against whom he’s fighting.” Another, in a letter to The Toronto Star, bemoaned the pushy knight’s interference: “Let’s have our foreign-aid policy and programs determined by our elected representatives, not wealthy non-Canadian musicians.” And just this week, a columnist for The Vancouver Sun described Geldof...
...idea of spending a year of reading, reflection, and vigorous discussion with like-minded colleagues at America’s premier educational institution is a rare and remarkable opportunity,” new fellow Bill Schiller—currently foreign editor at The Toronto Star—wrote in an e-mail...
...scene straight from The Monty Stratton Story, Toronto immediately tested Leonard's leg with a bunt, and might have kept it up if bulky First Baseman Steve Balboni had not dived to the bag in such a heroic frenzy that Second Baseman Frank White laughed out loud. "There are times," White says, "when a whole team reaches down for something that's even better than winning. I know it sounds impossible." On the subject of impossibilities, consider three hits, 18 men retired in a row and a 1-0 victory that ended on a strikeout. "When I struck Rance Mulliniks...