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Even this tradeoff may prove unyielding. Last week the state-owned Aviation Industry of China announced it was granting a contract worth an estimated $2 billion to a Europe-Singapore consortium to build 100-seat jetliners. And in April, during a visit to Paris, Prime Minister Li Peng also snubbed Boeing by approving a deal to buy 33 French-built Airbus planes. It was a not so subtle message to the U.S. to back off its criticism of China's trade and human-rights policies...
Times may be changing. Sheryl Swoopes, a star at Texas Tech, and now a guard/forward on the U.S. Olympic team, has a Nike sneaker named after her: Air Swoopes. She's the first woman with such a contract. "I'm still trying to find words to describe how I feel about that," she says. "It's an incredible feeling when you walk into a store and see your shoe. And you hear a little girl asking not for a pair of Air Jordans but a pair of Air Swoopes...
ATLANTA: The Shaq Attack is going Hollywood. The Los Angeles Lakers announced Thursday that they have signed the motherlode of NBA free agents, Orlando's Shaquille O'Neal, to a seven-year, $120 million contract. The move to Los Angeles allows O'Neal, a recording and movie star in his spare time, to more easily pursue these other endeavours. While Laker fans are excited about the addition of a new megastar to the Los Angeles scene, the reaction in Orlando may not be as negative as one would expect. In a poll in the Orlando Sentinel earlier this week...
...lawsuit, McLatchey contends that she did fulfill the requirements, and that the University therefore violated the contract by not conferring upon her the degree...
...claustrophobic day in their Connecticut summer house, circa 1912. Though the play presents an equally hopeless portrait of each beleaguered Tyrone, it is the figure of Jamie, especially as played by Bill Camp in the ART's new production, around whom the plays' energies and tensions expand and contract...