| Venkat's say could matter in the end
Now it has boiled down to a two-horse race for the hottest seat in Indian cricket. Interestingly, the contenders - John Emburey and Graham Ford - were not even the dark horses when the name of Daveneil Whatmore did the rounds. Of the two, Emburey has a distinct edge over Ford, going by his credibility as a player. Two things you instantly associate with the tall off-spinner, in Indian soil. First was the time when he caught the jaywalking Krish Srikkanth napping with a sharp throw from the slips in the '81 Mumbai Test. At the same venue, he plucked an out-of-the-world catch off his own bowling to send back Kiran More in the '87 World Cup semifinal. Mere statistics will reflect the class apart in the merits.
Upcoming events
HASTINGS Jan. 17: Residents of the Hastings area are invited to an open house on corridor alternatives for roads in and around northeastern Dakota County, an area that expects to see a significant rise in population in the next two decades. County officials will be on hand to answer questions and take comments. The open house will be from 4 to 6:30 p.m. at Hastings City Hall, 101 E. 4th St., in the Community Room. .
Minding the Gap
Two days before Black Friday, that late-November day when all hell breaks loose in the holiday-obsessed American retail industry, Gap Inc. chief executive Glenn Murphy was calmly walking analysts through the company's good-news, bad-news third quarter. Murphy, a veteran Canadian merchant, was recruited last summer by the struggling San Francisco-based retail giant, and this session marked his first full reporting period as the new boss. Though he hails from the considerably less stampede-prone world of big-box pharmacies—Murphy had been the CEO of Shoppers Drug Mart since 2001, presiding over a spectacularly successful run—he gamely talked about 5 a.m. store openings as if they were old hat. Murphy let on that he planned to drop by an Orlando store for a midnight madness event.
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