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...DIED. GORDON BROWN, 53, Scottish rugby forward who won 30 caps and played in some of the British Lions' most memorable tours, of cancer; in Ayr, Scotland. CONVICTED. YITZHAK MORDECHAI, 55, former Israeli Defense Minister and ex-general, of sexual assault in a case hailed by activists as a breakthrough in the fight against sexual harassment; in Jerusalem. RESIGNED. CHOI SUN-JUNG, 55, as South Korea's Health Minister, to take responsibility for a multibillion-dollar deficit in the country's national medical insurance system that has brought it to the verge of collapse; in Seoul...
...Nobody will be watching Wang's moves more closely than Yao, China's other towering talent. A few months ago, bookies were betting that Yao would be the first Chinese player off the NBA bench. The 20-year-old enjoyed a breakthrough season this year and he holds outsized potential. "It's almost impossible to find a man of his size who runs the court so well," says Terry Rhoads, marketing director for Nike in China. "I could see him ending up as the No. 1 draft pick this June." But Yao's bid is caught up in capitalist wrangling...
...sustained comic exuberance of Paradise Park (Dial; 360 pages; $24.95). Her earlier work certainly wasn't grim, but it tended toward the polished and well mannered and resonant, a la 19th century British fiction. Not this time. Like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth before her, Goodman has achieved a breakthrough book by discovering and recording a thoroughly uninhibited narrative voice. Bellow found Augie March, and Roth hit upon Alexander Portnoy. Goodman gives the world Sharon Spiegelman...
...Even the staunchest opponents seemed to have softened their opposition to the bill's central provision, a ban on the unregulated "soft money" that has flooded the political system over the past decade, nearly half a billion dollars in the 2000 election cycle alone. What may have been a breakthrough came after McCain arranged a meeting with one of his foes - Nickles, the Senate's No. 2 Republican. "Tell the senator his friends are here," McCain told Nickles' secretary when he arrived. Their discussion moved through some disagreements but found common ground. Nickles surprised McCain by bringing up soft money...
...lose some steam. Its problem is the overwhelming success of its key protagonists. Like musicians who dub themselves "alternative," it's hard to be truly independent these days. Those pesky big corporations keep distributing the most promising films. Eleven years ago Steven Soderbergh was a young hopeful touting his breakthrough "sex, lies and videotape." Now he has two films in competition for Best Picture. It's not that he's sold out. Far from it. It's that the studios have become savvier...