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Adjusting to the daily grind, physical play and endless stream of hotel suites can be tough for any rookie in professional basketball. But when the Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki first moved to the NBA four years ago, he faced more of a culture shock than most. Nowitzki, a seven-footer from Germany, couldn't play much defense (which earned him the nickname "Irk") and was briefly tagged, as many European imports are, a "soft" player who shies away from contact. He often found himself riding the bench, so he had lots of time to work on his English...
...singing would make Simon Cowell cringe, but she regularly packs concerts and performs on national television. She hasn't released a single recording, but one critic estimates that some 3 million pirated VCDs of her performances have been sold in Indonesia. Muslim clerics denounce her bump-and-grind dancing, attempt to ban her concerts, even pray for rain to keep impressionable fans away from her shows, yet politicians are lining up to recruit her support for the 2004 elections. She's become the live wire connecting Indonesia's still nascent freedom of expression with the country's entrenched?and often...
...relief agency USAID requires contracts to go to U.S. groups; but British firms must vie for British aid money with foreign competitors. The stakes, argues chief executive of the British Consultants and Construction Bureau Colin Adams, are not actually that high: "These projects are a steady, long-term grind, without vast profits." Yet he and many others still hope the U.S. will allow "steadfast allies" to subcontract work, as they did in Afghanistan. Corus Sings The Steely Blues When conflict happens in a marriage, the most common reason is money. Last week Corus - the steelmaker forged in 1999 from...
...documents and interview current and former officials. One reason for the increased budget: the commission wants to hire its own staff and not rely on officials on loan from the very agencies under investigation. "They want people independent of the agency," said one source. "Everybody's got oxen to grind." The commission also has yet to receive a copy of the highly classified 800-plus-page report from last year's joint House-Senate inquiry on 9/11. Meanwhile, Congress is still wrangling with intelligence and law-enforcement agencies over how much of its report can be made public. --By Timothy...
...tempting, of course, to blame the language. After all, maybe their predilection for clubbing was the natural result when everyone tipped off the international students that life at Harvard was often “a grind.” But evidence suggests that the love of grinding may be more sexual than intellectual. “Grinding is the best thing about America. You don’t get it in other countries,” Turnbull says, reflecting on the irony of what he sees as America’s strangely bi-polar sensibilities. “You can?...