If the Cosmos and NASL manage to tap their avowed potential (and right now the former are in a bullish pre-IPO mood, where claims are yet to meet empirical reality), then the ghost of NASL could haunt MLS again.

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Raffles, too, has become a smarter ghost of its former self a rather tacky tourist haunt serving Singapore Slings by the sickly pitcher.

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