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...great propaganda coup by Chinese apparatchiks, whose darling he became. Li also became, at the age of 12, China's national wushu champion - not junior champion, but champion, period. He held that title for the next four years and performed in over 45 countries before his 18th birthday, trotted out like a national mascot. "I felt like I was carrying a lot of responsibility," he says. "I felt like I was representing a billion people and needed to do good...
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LOST Ted Stevens, 85, celebrated two milestones Nov. 18: his birthday and a goodbye to the Alaska Senate seat he held for 40 years, longer than any other Republican in history. Two weeks after the election, a tally of the remaining ballots in the close race gave his opponent, Democrat Mark Begich, a nearly 4,000-vote lead...
...South Africa. Critics argued that he was profiting from a much-criticized feature of the apartheid regime; Kerzner countered that Sun City was a place where blacks and whites broke racial barriers by partying together. Kerzner later became friends with Nelson Mandela, attending the South African hero's 90th birthday party in London in June. By the time apartheid fell, Kerzner was selling off his properties in South Africa and going global, notably with the launch of the Atlantis in Paradise Island in 1996 - a spectacular success that revived tourism in the Bahamas. Kerzner, who maintains residences in London...
...Cabot House. He entered at least two rooms while their inhabitants were in bed and tried to talk to them about the homework for Social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics.” The arrest occurred merely five hours into Garcia’s 21st birthday, but HUPD declined to comment on whether Garcia was under the influence of alcohol or other substances. “I had no idea who the person was. I then asked him to leave, but instead he sat on my bed and continued to ask questions about the problem...