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...first, Warner was searching for a connection between the present and China's brief but glorious seafaring past. In Nanjing he found it: a direct, 19th-generation descendant of the Grand Eunuch's favorite adopted nephew, named Zheng Zhihai (which means from the sea). This modest 53-year-old, dressed in a rumpled suit, hasn't exactly followed in his ancestor's glorious naval tradition; Zheng works as a toilet engineer in a Nanjing factory. Still, while China had largely forgotten his heroic ancestor, Zheng says family legends kept his exploits very much alive. Tales of his voyages were passed...
...This case...is not about an extraordinary student or an extraordinary athlete: Plantiff Marcho Minuto was neither,” yesterday’s Harvard brief reads...
...Minuto] is, by Harvard standards, very weak academically and his application failed to present the compelling reason for admission that the College seeks in all of its successful candidates,” McGrath Lewis said in her affidavit. According to Harvard’s brief, his mixed academic record alone was a “fatal error” to his transfer application...
This year is different. After a brief burst of optimism in May, when stocks rallied for a short time and the Dow reached heights not seen since last fall, the U.S. has heard little but bad news. Last month telecom and fiber-optic giant Nortel (O.K., we know, it's really a Canadian company) announced an eye-popping loss of $19.2 billion for the quarter. Since then, profit warnings have come thick and fast, and commentators have started worrying that the Fed's six rate cuts this year (continued when the Open Market Committee lowered short-term rates...
...could and dreamed of making films like David Lean's 1962 Lawrence of Arabia, epic pictures with "bigger-than-life heroes, bigger-than-life villains." In 1967, The Graduate, with its Simon and Garfunkel songs, showed him how to wed pop movies with pop music. In 1970, after a brief career in advertising, Bruckheimer moved to Hollywood. As a fledgling producer, he put Blondie on the sound track of American Gigolo. He chose country music singer Faith Hill for Pearl Harbor because "it's an all-American movie, and she's an all-American artist...