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...luck, the cash-strapped team was set to receive a much-needed $47 million loan from Societe Generale, the French bank that employed a rogue trader who just cost the firm a cool $7 billion. The bank has shut down its U.S. sports lending practice, though Hornets president Hugh Weber insists Societe Generale assured him the deal will go through...
...start. They started selling tickets as the Saints kicked off a season that carried Super Bowl expectations (alas, they didn't even make the playoffs). Plus, up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University began a march to the national championship. "Our attendance is reflective of that circumstance," says Hugh Weber, the Hornets' president. "Football is a way of life here...
...into addiction, obscurity, and an early grave. The film struggles, but ultimately succeeds brilliantly in weaving together the strands of a life torn asunder, and, even to the luxurious sounds of Baker’s own music, it is difficult to do anything but recoil at the portrait that Weber paints.As much as Baker’s music reveals about his natural ability and seraphic voice, it’s the photographs that tell the most about his success and decline. The film opens as a photographer sorts through stills of Baker in the studio, in his mid-1950s prime...
...Knowing what to say to voters about the economy used to be an easy enough proposition for Republicans. "In the 1970s, it was inflation, and other than that, it's been jobs," says former Congressman Vin Weber, the Romney campaign's policy chairman. "Everybody learned their lines about the economy from a pretty simple script." So long as economic growth was somewhere north of 3%, unemployment under 5% and inflation contained at 3% or lower, Weber says, "we'd all look at them and say, 'That's all you need to know...
...Even now, most of them still haven't figured out how to address the economic concerns of voters. Says Romney adviser Weber: "Republicans are having a harder time finding their voice in this changed economic environment." When McCain was asked at the most recent Fox News debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C., what he might offer as a short-term, immediate fix to stave off a recession, he replied, "The first thing we need to do is stop the out-of-control spending." While curbing government spending is a good idea as a matter of policy, and a sure-fire applause...