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...risks tarnishing that image if relations with the world's only superpower plummet like a downed spy plane. "If Jiang can show that relations with the U.S. are in good shape, it will enable him to appoint more of his own men to the top positions," says Cheng Li, a political scientist at Hamilton College in New York State...
...Meanwhile, team owners say under the current system they feel more like sharecroppers than entrepreneurs. They want a bigger piece of the action. "The reason we have so many conflicts is because the CBA doesn't treat us as partners, they treat us as something they own," explains Li Yaomin, general manager of the Shanghai Sharks. "We should be like the NBA with truly independent franchises...
...critics credit him with helping to develop the sport through initiatives such as this year's founding of the women's professional league, the WCBA. And his point about mismanagement is right on the mark. Most team owners are neophytes when it comes to running a sports franchise. Li Yaomin, a retired journalist, admits he knew zip about basketball?or business for that matter?when he was assigned to be general manager for the Shanghai team...
...popularizing the sport has ironically decreased its uniqueness. The current roster of action stars no longer includes six-foot Aryan walls of muscle (though funny accents still abound). As James Bond, Pierce Brosnan has managed to elude age with a suaveness and wit to be found nowhere else. Jet Li can offer his lightning-quick martial arts skills to woo audiences. As for Arnold contemporaries Mel Gibson and Bruce Willis, their biggest successes of late have not been in traditional action fare. Arnold’s strength is his strength, and films like Collateral Damage haven’t done...
...That's assuming the deal goes through. In the wake of the Enron debacle, questions are being raised about Global Crossing's aggressive accounting practices. And even if a bankruptcy judge approves the bailout, it could take another dotcom boom for the investment to pan out. Li, however, doesn't mind taking big risks for big rewards...