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...The real challenge was around design,” says Joshua Steinberger, chief of strategy for the Presidio Trust....
...Legendary mafia don Paul Castellano, the head of the Gambinos, soon became a Tommaso regular, along with his lieutenants....
...“I do plan to return to golf one day, I just don’t know when that day will be,” he said. “I don’t rule out that it will be this year.”...
...Mike Steinberger’s ‘Au Revoir to All That: Food, Wine and the End of France’ is published by Bloomsbury ………………………………………….....
...I don’t think it can simply be the alcohol. In my experience, a gin and tonic deadens rather than sharpens the appetite, while beer in any volume seems filling rather than appetising....
...“You don’t think of the smaller tournament wins, you remember the grand slams and Davis Cups....
...But his comments betrayed a lack of conviction – “I know I can play but I don’t think I want to” – and within weeks, stories began circulating that Favre was having second thoughts....
...When people talk about how expensive it is to raise kids these days, I just smile; they don’t know the half of it. You might think we are creating a monster....
...“We don’t need to create a market for soccer – it already exists. We just need to be able to claim a bigger share of it.” And that is where Beckham comes in....
...The British weather is one imponderable, he says, adding: “And we don’t know who has bought the tickets.” The NFL’s invasion is the third and final leg of the so-called US autumnof sport....
...“These other players have got a hunger that our kids, with their computers, iPods, and skateboards, just don’t have,” says Smith....
...As Carmelo Anthony of the Denver Nuggets put it: “Right now, we don’t think people respect us as a country or as a basketball team, so we feel we have to go over and prove something.”...
...“After LA,” she explained, “I had the right to lose and once you don’t fear losing, you are capable of playing your best.”...
...Most golfers don’t come of age until their 30s (the precocious Woods being a notable exception), and they then tend to stick around into their 50s and even 60s....
...“You have to be very sophisticated to do this stuff, and I don’t think tennis as a sport is all that sophisticated compared to track and field or baseball.”...
...“We don’t like it that well,” he said. “If a player gets hurt, he’s risking a lot.”...
...But don’t necessarily bet on it....
...I just don’t enjoy the games. Instead, I’m filled with anxiety, anger, and hatred . . ....
...Klosterkemper says: “When consumers don’t like a product, you have to redesign it.”...
...The Zacharias – Jeff, who is 44 and seldom without a smile, his wife Frederique and his father Don – were on hand to meet and greet clients and guests and to oversee the sale....
...“Mostly, though, these guys know what they want; they just don’t have the time to buy it.”...
...For reasons of history, we don’t have the same capacity. Here, the system only changes through revolution.”...
..."What they've forgotten, I don't know," as he put it. His philosophy is to give employees all the slack they need to either run or hang themselves....
...Mike Steinberger is an FT contributor....
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