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...club double its annual revenues to $180 million. The problem, of course, is that building a new stadium takes massive capital investment, and Arsenal recently admitted that the annual interest payment on its new stadium is $48 million - meaning the club's competitiveness may hinge on coach Arsene Wenger's genius for buying unproven but talented youngsters and turning them into world-class players who can be sold for a huge profit after a few years' service...
...split on the issue. Sir Alex Ferguson, manager of Manchester United, told a fan magazine, "It's certainly not wrong that clubs should be seen to have a proportion of home-based players. You want to protect your own, and there is nothing wrong with that." Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, on the other hand, considers such ideas retrograde. He has said foreign quotas would "kill the Premier League" because it would impede the clubs' ability to find and field the best players possible. He also rejects the notion that quotas would safeguard local talent. "It won't protect the best...
Here's how Miliband says he plans to do so as Foreign Secretary: by resisting the temptation to be reactive and formulate policy in counterpoint to Washington (or any other international player), instead emulating the strategy of Arsène Wenger, manager of Arsenal, the London soccer club he supports. "There are those who decide their strategy on the basis of who's on the other team, and there are those who decide their strategy on the basis of who's in their team," says Miliband. "It's that latter strategy [Wenger] uses. Focus on your own strategy...
...recent article by Daniel Wenger (“The Rhodes and Harvard: Opportunity, Not Obligation,” op-ed, Mar. 16) discussed the complaints of two Harvard Rhodes Scholars. As someone who has taught at Oxford as a visiting professor twice in the past three years (and will again next year), I have to admit that some of the criticisms the students make about Oxford are accurate. If one is in a hurry to advance to a graduate degree, Oxford may not be the best choice. But that is not what the Rhodes experience should be about. Oxford, however...
Daniel P. Wenger ’09 is a history concentrator in Eliot House...