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...filling dance slippers with the feet of peasant children groomed to be stalwarts of a fiercely proletarian Chinese ballet style. Among them was Li, plucked from grade school because, he surmises, he had long toes. Talent scouts dispatched to the villages believed digit size to be an important physical asset for a dancer. "For me, a peasant boy, communism truly was great," Li writes...
...intensified FBI and CIA focus on the I.N.C.'s ties to Tehran have now put Chalabi himself under the microscope. "He's been suspected of being an Iranian asset for a long, long time," says Patrick Lang, a former DIA official. Since the beginning of the occupation, the I.N.C. has worked closely with the DIA and the U.S. military in Baghdad, feeding intelligence to the U.S. on the whereabouts of top Baathists and the movements of insurgent cells. But that relationship also gave Chalabi and his aides extraordinary access to members of the U.S. intelligence community. At least...
...China hungers for a new type of hero to replace the socialist icons of a bygone era, the nation's athletes are turning their sporting prowess into a marketable asset. Tian and Guo are among the first to make this headlong leap. Tian, the reigning Olympic champion in platform diving, zips around in a Mitsubishi Pajero suv and has a closet full of Versace and Armani. His rock-star mane and six-pack abs have helped cast him as a pitchman for Amway and Bausch & Lomb. Guo, with her porcelain-doll features and two silver medals from the Sydney Olympics...
...funds that tread water or worse. For another, respected firms like Man, a U.K. hedge-fund giant, are now marketing their products to people who have as little as $18,000 to invest. Although estimates vary, earlier this month the Alternative Fund Services Review, an industry publication, claimed that assets under management in hedge funds had surpassed $1 trillion. Another analysis firm puts the figure at more than $860 billion - up from $456 billion five years ago. To be sure, hedge funds still account for less than 1% of assets under management worldwide. But a Goldman Sachs?Russell Investment Group...
...Asset Stripping A U.S. executive of insurance titan Swiss Re sued a New York City lap-dance palace, claiming the club's bogus charges left him with a bill for $28,000. He said he owed a mere...