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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...justification for raising ticket prices 300%. Another innovation Suwarso has in mind: season tickets. Amazingly, that would be a first in the National League. "No team has ever made a profit in Indonesian football," says Suwarso, a soccer fan who didn't let his enthusiasm for the game wane during his four years at Indiana's Purdue University. "My whole club is designed to make money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatigue in the League | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...likelihood is that Japan will just muddle through, much in the same way the Japanese government has muddled through the past 10 recession-filled, confidence-depleting years. Says playwright Yamazaki, whose devotion to the Giants began to wane after Watanabe forced the free-agent system on the other owners in 1993: "Let Japanese players go to the States. That is good for Japanese baseball because someday they will come back and raise the level of the sport. Japanese baseball is like Japanese politics. One is dominated by the Giants, the other by the ldp. It will take time to liberate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Batting Out Of Their League | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...same time, nationalism is on the wane among the young professional cadre in Eastern and Central Europe. But that's good news for supporters of expansion. "I don't feel any national belonging," says Gabriela Novotna, 28, a lawyer in Prague. "We are all people living in Europe. It's all the same to me if somebody is German, French, Vietnamese or Chinese." She, for one, has no reservations about the E.U.: "The European Union will bring light into our lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Generation Europe | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...Ironies aside, the demise of Milosevic has strengthened the tendency in NATO to discourage any redrawing of sovereign borders in the Balkans. And Western enthusiasm for policing the region's tribal wars will inevitably wane in proportion to any increase in direct danger to their troops. For some, that appears to make a compelling case for bringing back the Yugoslav army to police the borders NATO is now committed to upholding. Who knows, at this rate they may yet find themselves pining for the former Yugoslavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO's New Balkan Solution: Bring in the Serbs | 3/7/2001 | See Source »

...there's always the McCain factor. Now that Bush won, this is not just his last shot at national stardom, but a personal mission for a man who likes his politics personal. His rebelliousness tends to wax and wane, but this is a guy who promised "blood on the floor of the U.S. Senate." Just because he's decided to wait until March doesn't mean it won't be a heck of a show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain Makes a Deal | 1/26/2001 | See Source »

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