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...January of this year, BP Amoco sold its $1.65 billion stake in PetroChina. The move came on the heels of a four-year campaign by black churches and human rights groups in the U.S. to boycott Amoco stations in protest of BP’s links to Sudan—although BP’s decision to drop the shares was likely made due to economic considerations and not humanitarian concerns...
...frayed shoelace compared with losing China's most famous living human. Yao Ming had worn Nike since Rhoads discovered him as a skinny kid with a sweet jumper--and brought him some size 18s made for NBA All-Star Alonzo Mourning. In 1999 he signed Yao to a four-year contract worth $200,000. But Nike let his contract expire last year. Yao defected to Reebok for an estimated $100 million. The failure leaves Nike executives visibly dejected. "The only thing I know is, we lost Yao Ming," says a Shanghai executive who negotiated with the star...
...confidence has come slowly, but the results have been immediately apparent. Harvard has a potential four-year starter at defensive end, one who spent the summer doing daily two-hour running and lifting workouts and has made the Crimson weight room a second home. His intensity caught the attention of the Harvard coaches, who were thrilled to find a work ethic that matched his size...
Thomas LaVeist, a Johns Hopkins University professor, conducted the survey in collaboration with Black Enterprise. The survey only considered accredited four-year colleges that were well-known or had an African-American population of at least three percent. From the 482 eligible colleges, Black Enterprise polled 1,855 black higher education professionals about the social and educational environment of the schools...
...four-year shoot might seem torture to some directors. Not this one. "For me," he says, "to make films is like a circus. We should just go from one town to another, always on the road, stopping when we think we should stop. To me, if there's no Cannes, you can make 2046 for another year." Is it a circus or a love affair, whose ending he both dreads and prays for? As Chow says in the movie, "You can't leave 2046. You can only hope it leaves you." Filmmaking for Wong Kar-wai is like an addiction...