Word: bannered
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...clamor of wannabe Yao Mings. Teenage boys leap and shout and launch fadeaway threes, and a dozen girls who can't be older than seven dribble two balls at a time?perhaps the Olympians of 2020 and beyond. OUR DREAM IS TO BECOME A SHANGHAI SHARK, reads a banner strung on the fence, but it is out of date; the success of the Young Giant has trumped domestic glory. Now, says a coach named Wu, "the NBA is the ultimate goal...
...other Olympians had banner nights. Freshman forward Julie Chu had four goals and four assists, while junior captain Angela Ruggiero picked up two goals and five assists...
...exams postponed the only scheduled December meet. And so the fencers meet every afternoon, sparring in the same old anonymity but with a new boundless promise surrounding their seasons (the women came within three points of beating their Lion counterparts and were fifth at IFAs in a banner year...
...promised to declare his wealth. That is not the whole remedy but it shows that he is serious," says John Githongo, executive director of the Kenyan chapter of Transparency International, an anticorruption watchdog. First, though, Kibaki must clean up his party, an amalgam of 15 groups under the banner of the National Rainbow Coalition. It is stacked with former KANU members, many of them accused of the corruption Kibaki promises to fight. The new President was born in the shadow of Mount Kenya, the son of a tobacco and cattle farmer. After excelling at his high school, Kibaki studied...
Un’ altra Europa è possibile was the banner under which half-a-million people occupied the piazzas of Florence last month. The march capped a five day conference of intellectuals, trade-unionists and activists assembled as the European Social Forum. Events sparkled with gaiety and giddy energy, contrasting sharply with fresh memories of the 2001 Genoa G8 summit street-battle that resulted in hundreds of hospitalizations and one demonstrator shot dead by the Italian military police. The Forum marked the arrival of a new European left...