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...knock-off shoes I was bargaining for, sighed, and paid the price she was asking. As I walked away, I turned around to watch her and her co-worker giggle with excitement. I had been had.The scene above played out in a market typical of Shanghai: four- or five-floor “malls” filled with hundreds of fake-stuff-stalls, selling everything from North Face to Abercrombie to Coach to print shirts with lazy translations (one read, “Let’s Do The Dancing Team Beach Volleyball”). After the first week, these...
...Absolutely." The word almost knocked me to the floor, as if LeBron James threw his massive elbow into my puny chest. Did he really just say what I think he said? During a June interview for TIME's Olympic preview issue, I asked James if he could guarantee that the United States would win gold in Beijing. It was a throwaway question, a standard strategy sports journalists employ to see if an athlete will prematurely pump his chest. Sure, guarantees get overblown, but they do say a lot about an athlete. He or she is confident, even cocky, and willing...
...clear from last week's NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll that Obama still faces a good deal of skepticism from those Clinton backers; Denver is the place where fences will be mended and votes secured - or where disunity on the convention floor could become a threat to his candidacy...
...squads with great technical precision like Argentina, can't play rough. But international hoops is actually much more physical than the NBA. The refs let more go; in the NBA, every hand check is a federal offense. So Argentina's strategy was clear: knock the Americans to the floor early and often. In the first quarter, Argentina's Luis Scola, a 6-ft, 9-in. 230 lb. center, gave America's Dwight Howard a good tug. The 6-ft,. 11-in., 265 lb. Howard makes Mr. Universe look bony, so he didn't fall. But the refs swallowed the whistle...
...health-care reform, juvenile justice, poverty - aren't the easiest. They tell the story of his artful arm-twisting and cajolery in the Illinois senate on behalf of bills to reform campaign-finance laws and require police to videotape interrogations. Obama worked his colleagues one by one, on the floor, on the basketball court, at the poker table, and managed to pass some difficult legislation. "He's unique in his ability to deal with extremely complex issues, to reach across the aisle and to deal with diverse people" one Republican colleague, McCain supporter Kirk Dillard, told the Wall Street Journal...