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...talent, regularly supplying a majority of the national team's players. But despite its tradition of representing Ukrainian pride (particularly against Russian teams during the Soviet era), the accepted wisdom in independent Ukraine is that soccer success requires buying the best talent available - and given the fact that far wealthier clubs in Western Europe are going to take the cream of the world's soccer talent, clubs in the Ukraine and Russia - and France and Belgium - who can't afford top-tier Brazilians, Frenchmen, Scandinavians or even the established stars of African football have looked increasingly to Africa's second...
Countless women were eager to bed him and, in the case of the older and wealthier ones, to support him--"ardents," he called them. Friends, colleagues and hangers-on were willing to forgive him almost anything because of his gifts and because of an underlying innocent sweetness they saw in him. (Not everyone, though: the young Kenneth Tynan described him as "a surly little pug, but a master of pastiche and invective. Thinks himself the biggest and best phoney of all time, and may be right...
...ROBERT BUXTON CAVENDISH, 84, the elegant and modest 11th Duke of Devonshire, who held on to his ancestors' grand lifestyle by turning the 16th century Chatsworth estate owned by his family for 14 generations into one of Britain's most popular tourist attractions; in Derbyshire, England. Thought to be wealthier than the Queen, Sir Andrew paid off $20 million in inheritance taxes by selling tens of thousands of acres of land and art from his large collection to set up a trust that financed his mansion's maintenance...
Behind his candidacy, Dahroug says, is his desire to reform school financing and improve the quality and consistency of public education in his district—without reallocating funds directly from wealthier to poorer districts...
...unique part of the decision is that it doesn’t call for a standard of equity, it calls for a standard of adequacy,” said Dahroug, who opposes what he calls “Robin Hood plans” to transfer funds from wealthier to poorer districts...