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...Even if most Americans don't know the Li Ning name yet, many will remember the man. After his historic 1984 performance, the tycoon leaped back into the Olympic spotlight - literally - during the opening ceremony at the 2008 Beijing Games. Suspended by cables, Li soared into the air and ran a slow-motion aerial lap around the Bird's Nest before lighting the Olympic cauldron in front of an estimated 4 billion television viewers - much to the annoyance of Adidas, which had spent some $80 million to sponsor the Games. (See pictures of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies...
...existing home sales fell 2.2% and 0.6% respectively from January to February, and unsold inventory rose 9.5% during the same period. Some of February's sluggishness could be explained by cold, snowy weather that blasted the Eastern seaboard, but the precise impact of this is hard to know...
While Breitbart is a polestar to many Tea Partyers, his excesses have the potential to cause the movement embarrassment. "The smarter conservatives who know Breitbart regard him affectionately," says a plugged-in Republican player, "but they think he's a little out of it. In another age, the Big sites would have been produced on a mimeograph machine. I'd call him the first neo-crank...
Maybe this is why Breitbart is in such a hurry. After dashing out of the studio, he races home via the sort of shortcuts only native Angelenos know. His wife Susie (daughter of Orson Bean, a mainstay of the old TV game show To Tell the Truth) is preparing supper for him and their four children. But the real reason for the rush is that O'Keefe is visiting their house tonight to screen his latest effort, an undercover video revealing purported shenanigans at the offices of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Breitbart hopes to debut the footage...
...excellence as sweet-smelling breath or a cavity-free dental X-ray. "Chinese culture defines women by their maternity," says Cai Yiping, executive director of the women's-rights NGO Isis International. "The perfect woman should be married with a child. Preferably a son. But I don't know if the space program has put that part in their requirements...