Word: center
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certain that the 22-year-old will be posting up against Shaq (7 ft. 1 in.) anytime soon, however. Wang is the starting center for the Bayi Rockets--the team of the People's Liberation Army--and even when he peels off his basketball doublet, he belongs to the army. In China, which is light-years away from NBA-style unions and agents, a team has almost total control over a player's rights. The P.L.A. would fight to keep him. He led the Rockets to five national championships. Says Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Donn Nelson, whose team tabbed Wang...
...leans into what he says and his disarming, wide-toothed smile and how hard he works to make you like him. That's how he does it. And in part, that's how he got to this corner-office suite with the view of Rockefeller Center--the former digs of legendary CBS founder William Paley as well as Karmazin's predecessor, Michael H. Jordan--and why, when Viacom completes its acquisition of CBS, he will be running the day-to-day operations of the newly minted media giant...
...Dorothea Arnold, curator in charge of the Met's Egyptian department, the time when art began to flourish. "It was invented and stylized then," she says, "and it stayed that way for 2,000 to 3,000 years. This was a time when the human figure was at the center of art. When people asked, 'Who are we? What is death?' These people came to grips with death by cherishing life, by transforming human figures into stone in order to preserve them forever." The show moves to Toronto in February...
...dictator set only a few conditions: the disbanding of the Catholic-dominated German Center Party and the defining of any Catholic criticism of Nazi political acts as "foreign interference." The 1933 concordat, claims Cornwell, "imposed a moral duty on Catholics to obey the Nazi rulers" and so neutered Germany's "last democratic focus." (Catholics made up one-third of the German population.) Pacelli, meanwhile, commenced his long silence on Jewish persecution...
...anything, this unit certainly has size. The weight of the group averages 282 pounds with both Clare and junior center John Kadzielski tipping the scales at 290 pounds...