Luckily, that was defeated by powerful Manhattan representatives, but quite a few Brooklynites are happy about an arena that would let them have a national team for the first time since the Dodgers baseball club (named for the Brooklyn trams they had to dodge) went to LA.
Amazingly for a bank based in Switzerland, the pilfered documents showed that there might have been a bit of tax dodging going on.
That is because the benefits of the tax dodges went to Long-Term Capital's partners, not to its outside investors.
He thinks the timing of the start was wrong, that the route involved unnecessary problems, particularly having to dodge pirates going up to Abu Dhabi, and that the old, traditional route through the southern ocean was a better test.
He continued: "We're in a war, the snipers are out there and the bullets are flying, we've got to dodge them going into Thursday's game".
"The cone moving away from us is a mixed bag: you know the bullet you are dodging is going to hit somebody else".
After dodging two bicycles going the wrong way in their own lane, I planted my feet in the dangerously narrow pedestrian area between traffic and parked cars, and began looking for a cab.
James has to keep squinting and staring ahead — looking out for where they're going, dodging the trams and broken pavings and bicycles and horse muck — so as not to be drawn into the talk and made ridiculous.
"You know I'm going to dodge it".
"I knew there was some potential for backlash, but I'm not going to dodge it," he said.
