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USA Today runs its Clinton defense story as the off-lead and goes instead with Michael Jordan's imminent retirement, a story that rates big front play at the NYT and a reefer at the LAT . Another sports story dominates much of the rest of the USAT front: the wildly accelerating prices sports franchises are fetching.
A variation on the theory that democracies don't go to war with each other, the golden arches hypothesis was proved false even before his book's publication date by the war between NATO and Serbia (where the Belgrade McDonald's franchises were promptly vandalized).
This "was proved false even before his book's publication date by the war between NATO and Serbia (where the Belgrade McDonald's franchises were promptly vandalized)."
Brand-new companies crop up on the Net that put longstanding, valuable franchises at risk.
How long before the NBA has franchises from Zurich to Shanghai?