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Chinese may go to New Jersey to wash dishes or New England to earn a degree, but they come to Africa to make fortunes and garner respect. Zheng He did as well. It was from Malindi, now a sleepy resort town a two-hour drive up the coast from Mombasa, that he received his most precious tributes: a qilin (or unicorn), a celestial stag and a celestial horse - now identified more prosaically as a giraffe, an oryx and a zebra. Since moving sight unseen to Mombasa in 1992, Li and his family have also taken Africa's natural riches - especially...
...idea for the film came from Todd Garner, a Disney executive at the time. He approached Bruckheimer, who says he was intrigued by "a period that had a lot of innocence and a lot of brutality at the same time." The concept now seems like a no-brainer; Steven Spielberg (with Saving Private Ryan) and NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw (in his Greatest Generation books) have spun America's World War II nostalgia into gold, but market research for Pearl Harbor showed that the desirable high-moviegoing audience of ages 19 to 24 generally had no idea what Pearl Harbor...
...Harvard freshman crew had advanced to the semifinals, where it confronted the Yale junior varsity lightweight crew, one of several boats that Yale sent to Henley in the year of its tercentennial. The Crimson pulled off a time of 6:27 to garner the victory over the Elis by a length and a quarter...
Another American crew found success at Henley—Dartmouth. After a late start to its spring season on the water due to frozen water, Dartmouth picked up speed at the end of its season, in time to garner second place at Sprints and a spot in the final of the Ladies’ Challenge Plate against Princeton. In the final, the Big Green overcame an early Princeton lead to win the cup with a time...
...winning streak, a different Harvard player stepped forward to assume the scoring burden. In the Crimson's 1-0 blanking of San Diego State, freshman midfielder Katie Westfall scored the game's only goal. It was the second strike of the year for Westfall, who would go on to garner six goals and six assists en route to Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors...