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Globalization continues after sale of Nets to Russian mogul

John Jeansonne

Newsday columnist John Jeansonne.

Jeansonne has been a reporter in Newsday’s sports department since

No sooner was the Obama administration accused of appeasing the Russians in shelving an Eastern European missile shield plan than the richest man in the former USSR swooped in and announced he was buying the New Jersey Nets last week. At least, that’s how it looks if one is still fighting the Cold War.

More likely, the proposal by 44-year-old tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov to become the National...

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