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...Ming still has no idea how many millions are in his future. As the No. 1 pick in last year's National Basketball Association draft, Yao signed a four-year contract with the Houston Rockets for $17.8 million. A few rival NBA executives predicted the contract would run out before the Rockets saw a return on their investment. But after a rocky start, Yao--now 22 and 7 ft. 5 in.--has shown flashes of dominance. He has scored 20 points against the defending-champion Lakers, 27 against the Spurs and league MVP Tim Duncan, and 30 against the Western...
Theatricals President Stefan Atkinson ’03 and Vice President Shawn H. Snyder ’03, who emceed the ceremony that took place in the Pudding building, pretended to confuse Huston with singer Whitney Houston, and tried to make the actress sing along to the song “I Will Always Love...
...While "Young Giant Yao," as the Chinese lovingly call their paramount sports hero, contributes a stunning rookie season to the Houston Rockets, McClintock is expected to reciprocate. Last season, with Yao at center, the Sharks won 23 of 24 league games, earning their first CBA championship. Anything less than commensurate dominance will be considered a failure and a loss of face for McClintock. At the market everybody seems to know his name, perhaps because every Sharks home game is aired on television. So are most of Yao's games in Houston, beamed live at 9 a.m. Shanghai time from...
...legal system. When a judge forbids you to leave the state of Georgia, it is generally not a good idea to skip town. It is a still worse idea to perform on a nationally televised awards show being broadcast from Los Angeles. In November Brown, the husband of Whitney Houston, was ordered to stay in Georgia pending his trial for a 1996 drunken-driving charge in Atlanta. But last week he appeared onstage at the American Music Awards with rapper Ja Rule singing a duet of Thug Lovin'. The crowd loved it, but the judge proved a tougher critic. When...
Though mother and daughter now live separately, they not only get together for movies, lunches and shopping jaunts but also work side by side in Fran's copy-machine company in Houston. "Our relationship is stronger than I ever dreamed it could be, which means so much to me at this point in my life," Fran says. "We've become more than just mother and daughter; we're actually really good friends...