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...inevitably, the controversy involves money. The government plans to award the entire project-which could cost up to $6.8 billion-to a single consortium, which would build and then run the cultural facilities for 30 years. Three development groups-including a partnership of Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Holdings and Sun Hung Kai Properties, the city's largest developer-were shortlisted, and last month, their proposals were unveiled at an exhibit replete with detailed models and video simulators. So far, more than 60,000 people have gone to take a look. "At the end of the day, it comes...
...salesman" and "shameless huckster." The program claimed-- falsely, King says in his suit--that he shortchanged Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes as well as a hospital owed funds from a boxing charity benefit, and threatened to kill two people. An ESPN spokesman defended SportsCentury as a Peabody and Emmy Award--winning series that is "widely respected for its journalistic quality." Gentlemen, to your corners...
...AWARDED. An $8.1 million settlement to SHUJI NAKAMURA, 50, engineer who helped Nichia Corp. develop the blue light-emitting diode (LED), a semiconductor device used in everything from cell phones to traffic lights; by Tokyo's High Court; in Tokyo. Piqued by a $200 bonus for what Nichia claimed was merely a contribution to a team project, Nakamura sued his former employer in 2001, seeking a greater share of the profits from its LED patents and winning $194 million from a district judge. Although that decision was overturned, the $8 million payout, which Nakamura reluctantly accepted, marks the largest-ever...
...first contest Du had missed in his Harvard career—last season, he led his freshman class with a 6-4-10 line and earned the team’s George Percy Award, given “to a member of the freshman class for enthusiasm, sportsmanship, team spirit and loyalty...
...grants board would take on the current Finance Committee’s role of distributing money to student groups, but would no longer require the approval of the entire council to award grants. The advocacy board would carry out the work now done by the Student Affairs Committee...