Word: hao
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...average Chinese?for whom supporting the motherland in athletic competition is one of the few instances in which mass, spontaneous celebration is allowed?is conditioned to see sporting victories as a metaphor for China's ascendance. "Our current national sports policy is called 'Winning Pride at the Olympics,'" says Hao Qiang, head of the State General Administration of Sport's Competition and Training Department. "By being successful at the Olympics, China will erase our shameful past of being humiliated by foreign powers...
...punishment, four of the players were kicked off the national team and sent back to provincial clubs. The coaches spared Ma Lin, who is?not coincidentally?the world's best player, and Wang Hao, No. 3 in the world. (China didn't want to lose them in advance of the Athens Olympics this summer.) Team coach Cai Zhenhua says the excommunicated players will have "free time to calm down and reflect upon their actions"?and suggested they could one day be rehabilitated...
...Corp. pitched as "legal education" in order to win approval from the Ministry of Public Security, is made in a police-run production house. The host, a Beijing cop, sounded too Orwellian at first. "We had to explain to him that he should sound caring about the people," says Hao Fang, who oversees the show for News Corp...
...other side of town for residents whose homes had been damaged. "We thought that settled it," says Su, "and we went home satisfied." In April, 50 townspeople returned to Wang's office to see what arrangements had been made for their move. "But this time," says Wang Hao, a 65-year-old retired miner, "the boss said he wouldn't help us." Ten of the petitioners that day were Youbao employees. Over the next two months, all were fired, though Wang Jilong claimed it was for skipping work...
...January, 10 of these unlikely crusaders gather around the bed in Su's bare-walled house to recount their misfortunes. Wang Hao displays a pile of photographs of houses rent apart at the seams. Zu Youming reads from a handwritten sheet listing the times he's been rebuffed by local officials. On the bed lies a petition with red thumbprints beside each signature. Suddenly, from below the house comes the startling sound of exploding dynamite. Su's home heaves upward and his windows rattle. "Don't worry," says the bathhouse owner. "That's just the miners, back from their lunch...